Friday, July 24, 2015

2015 Jilly Lone Ranger White


Jared Dixon under his Jilly label has released an intriguing new white: a 2015 New England Gewurztraminer and Petit Manseng, hand-picked and destemmed, indigenous-yeast fermented. The most extraordinary colour, making you think of medieval mead, a kind of dense honey that's also clear and golden, with an hallucinatory bronzed-pink tinge. A mildly sweet perfume of jube, ripe stone fruit, a fluffy yellow or golden velvet. A beautiful wine that is almost like cordial; sophisticated and elegant. An adult wine, a wine for fantastically imagined aristocratic celebrations – or a wine to serve really good and valued friends to say that they are of value.