2018 | Idlewild Flora & Fauna Sparkling | Mendocino Etude Tannins are velvety and dusty

Tannins are velvety and dusty in texture

As good as we have seen in recent vintages

velvety tannin texture and packed with black fruit preserves and exotic spice layers

In short: it is pure stimulation

2018 | Idlewild Flora & Fauna Sparkling | Mendocino Etude Tannins are velvety and dustyIs this my favorite dry sparkling white of all time? Ask me again in five years, but the answer is probably. As you glug, you might notice a moment of flowery aromatics that Muscat notoriously loves to show off (diva.) like orange blossom and nutty jasmine iced tea, but its balanced scarily well with flavors on the other end of the spectrum, a. k. a. this quenching Cosmic Crisp apple y apricot lightness with a twinge of sea salt and gingery citrus.