2018 | Idlewild Flora & Fauna Sparkling | Mendocino Olivier Riviere pure and elegant

pure and elegant

Cloudy due to presence of residual yeast

From a 3ha parcel where the vines average 60 years of age

elegant and delicate

2018 | Idlewild Flora & Fauna Sparkling | Mendocino Olivier Riviere pure and elegantIs 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.