2004 Peay - Roussanne/Marsanne Estate Rhone Blend - USA - California - Sonoma - Sonoma Coast - White

Light gold. Open and airy with lemon, stone, a bit of honey, and wax characteristics. Nicely viscous with very fine acidity levels. Good length finishing with lemon rind zest and chalky stone flavors. The juice was barrel fermented using wild yeasts in neutral oak and then aged on its lees. Vanessa Wong performed a batonnage every two weeks. Fruit came into the winery in two flights. The first flight consisted of both Roussanne and Marsanne and therefore the two varieties were co-fermented. The second and later picked flight was all Roussanne. I tasted the co?fermented lot.