Monday, August 4, 2008

2005 Michael David Incognito Viognier

The Michael-David family of wines are from the Lodi, California area, near Sacramento. They specialize in several very popular, value priced wines. Probably their most famous wine is "7 Deadly Zins."

Incognito's grapes are grown in the Ripken Vineyard, east of the Carquinez Straits in the Sacramento River Delta. Warm days and cool evenings - reminiscent of the clone's native Rhone Valley - produce the powerful and intense fruit with a sultry body that characterizes this wine, making it unlike any other Viognier.

Pear and honeysuckle aromas open up into flavors of passion fruit, green apple and a lingering finish. It's a very good summer drinking wine. We had it with a large barbequed chicken salad.

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