Tuesday Tasting is a regular feature of Lyke2Drink that explores some of the best beers, wines and spirits on the market. This week we sample a wine from a relatively new Napa Valley vineyard.
Mira Winery of Napa, Calif., is a 2009 startup winery that buys fruit from vineyards in the region. The winery makes three whites, a chardonnay, a sauvignon blanc – both made with 100 percent grapes of those styles – and Admiration White, a blend of 80 percent sauvignon blanc and 20 percent chardonnay. Mira recently made news by announcing it was testing the impact of aging wine in the ocean by sinking some cases in Charleston habor.
“Perceptions are changing about white
wine in America. It’s not just for the cocktail hour anymore,” said Gustavo
Gonzalez, winemaker at Mira. “More white wines are being
made and they’re not all being made in a chardonnay style that had become so
innocuous.”
Mira 2011 Admiration White is
a blend of 80 percent sauvignon blanc and 20 percent chardonnay. Clean fruit aroma that opens to a combination
of honeysuckle and citrus flavors. Clean and bright, a good wine to go with
light meals.
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