Arvin’s Acres Winery, Carroll County, IN

Arvin’s Acres Winery, Carroll County, IN

Visiting Carol County, Indiana for a family birthday celebration dinner, following the Spectacular Italian Dining in Rural Indiana featured in this blogpost, we visited Arvin’s Acres Winery enroute on our return home.

Todd and Anita Hoshaw founded Arvin’s Acres Winery and Meadery in 2018 when they purchased Anita’s Grandparents’, Bill and Alice Arvin's, 100-year-old farmhouse and property, to pursue their dream of building and operating a winery. Anita had the feeling, "You only live once and sometimes that can pass you by before you get to enjoy it." Three months later, they sold their house in Lebanon, IN and relocated to build and pursue their dreams in their childhood hometown of Delphi, IN.

Shortly after getting married in 2002 they discovered a common interest in wine and visiting the Indiana Wine Trails. They loved the camaraderie inherent in the wine business. They expanded their wine travels to other states, and over the course of the next 16 years, that feeling of fellowship and a love of wine left them dreaming of opening our own winery. 

Todd serves as Wine & Mead Maker and Beekeeper. Arvin's Acres produce a broad portfolio of quality wines, meads, ciders, and seltzers. Their non-grape fruit wine is produced from fruits grown by local farmers and their meads are produced from a combination of our honey and honey purchased locally.

They provide full winery experience in their hospitality center tasting room and a patio pavilion outdoors.

Arvin’s Acres produce a dozen wine labels from dry white and red wines, to semi sweet fruit wines and a sweet dessert wine. Their tasting room offers wine tasting flights of four different wines, wines by the glass, and of course wines are available for purchase by the bottle. They also ship wines. 

We sampled a flight of their dry wines, a couple of their sweet fruit wines, and their unique “Toasted”, a sweet Niagara grape varietal white wine infused with Thai Chili flakes for a bit of added kick. 

Todd suggested their ‘flagship’ might be the Limited Edition ‘Washington Reserve’, a blackberry fruit wine. 

Our view was the most complex and sophisticated wine was the “Trilogy Rouge”, a dry red blend of traditional Bordeaux varietals of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. 

They source their grapes from throughout the Midwest including Indiana, Michigan and also the Finger Lakes region of New York. Todd has three blocks of berry plantings on the property as well as his bee hives.

Weekends they offer live music entertainment on weekends and every second Saturday from June through October they host line dancing. On this day, performing was the talented and entertaining singer songwriter Adrienne Frailery from Milford, IN. She entertained the house playing guitar and the electric piano, singing a mix of soft rock, ballads, and country. 

I wrote about the Indiana Wine industry, the Indiana AVA’s and Wine Trails in more detail in this earlier blogpost - Carpenter Creek Cellars - Indiana Produced Wines.

A fun outing for an afternoon or evening, a taste of Indiana.

Spectacular Italian Dining in Rural Indiana

Spectacular Italian Dining in Rural Indiana

On Sunday, we traveled to Delphi, Indiana, 25 miles northeast of Lafayette, to wife Linda’s hometown, for a birthday celebration dinner for brother Stan, with sister Dr, Pat. 

We dined at Paretta’s Italian Ristorante on the courthouse square, city center Delphi, adjacent the Delphi Opera House, immediately opposition the Carrol County Courthouse - “La Tavola Where Everyone is Family”. 

In their words, “We carry on our heritage of immigrants who ventured to the United States in the late 19th century, seeking a fresh start and carrying with them the rich culinary traditions of Italy. At Paretta’s, we believe in doing things the hard way because it’s worth it. That means hand-rolling fresh pasta, creating mouthwatering dishes from scratch, and taking no shortcuts in our quest to serve you the finest Italian cuisine.”

What an incredible culinary discovery of this dine site -  quant, rustic, unpretentious, the food was outstanding, rivaling our favorite Italian dine sites at home, in Chicago, even New York City. 

The siblings, Linda, Stan and Pat

We could not have imagined such a delightful dinner, in a rustic Tuscan Mediterranean setting, with such extraordinary imaginative and thoughtfully prepared dishes. 

From the “Start the Table” appetizers we ordered the Bruschetta Board - Crostini Bread with Three Flavors - Margherita, Ricatta Honey and Pesto - three different preparations of bread and toppings - all were delicious,  and the Fried Ravioli with Marinera, Alfredo and Pesto Sausage - both were artfully presented and delicious, albeit the portions were small, suitable for two or three, but a stretch for four. 

For Main Course entrees we ordered the Baked Pasta - from the menu - choice of two types of pasta, penne or spaghetti, and choice of five preparations Marinara, Vodka, Alfreda, Bolognese or Pesto, and choice of addition of one of four meats, steak, meatballs, Shrimp or chicken. 

Linda ordered the Penne, Pesto and Steak, while Stan and I both ordered the Spaghetti, Bolognese and Meatballs. Both selections were extraordinary, artfully presented, delicious and ample proportions. 

Spaghetti, Bolognese and Meatballs 

Penne, Pesto and Steak 

Pat ordered the “Brunch Plates” the Calabrian Heat - Eggs, Calabirna Peppers, Pepperoni, Potatoes and Ricatta. 

For a finishing dessert course we had the home-made Tiramisu, which was delectatble. 

A surprising delightful and memorable outing, worthy of the journey. 

Our server Liz was great. 

Afterwards, on our way home, we drove seven miles north of town into the country to visit Arvin’s Acres Winery for a tasting flight of locally crafted wines. I wrote about that in a follow on blogpost - Arvin’s Acres Winery, Carroll County, Indiana. 

Return to Cellar Wine Bistro, Lafayette

Return to Cellar Wine Bistro, Lafayette

For the second time in as many weeks, we found ourselves in Lafayette (IN). Unfortunately, it was for another Celebration of Life of a recently departed dear friend of wife Linda, from her hometown. 

Following the gathering, we went back to the Cellar Wine Bistro in downtown Lafayette, which we enjoyed so much on our previous recent visit - featured in this blogpost - Kosta Browne Chardonnay at The Cellar Wine Bistro Lafayette.

Tonight, we had the pleasure of meeting the owner, Michelle, whose love of wine and hospitality was the impetus for opening the establishment. She personally manages the wine program. It was a pleasure meeting her and showing our support for the business, and learning more about her background, and wine country insights and experiences. 

 

We ordered the plate of olives, the bread plate of house-made Focaccia & whipped berry flavored butter …

And the Baked Brie with Tart black cherry, sage and crostini … 

And the Roasted Asparagus with whipped ricotta, jammy egg, parmesan, wtih lemon-dijon vinaigrette …

Invariably, when visiting a wine centered venue, I will customarily ask the server if they have any wines that are not on the winelist. Typically, there are, given the challenges and dynamics of keeping an extensive wine list up to date. So it was, tonight, that there were several recent acquisitions that had not been updated on the published list.

We selected a unique appellation varietal combination, never experienced before, a Tuscan Chardonnay, from a top reputable producer, whose wine we have enjoyed in the past. 

Isole e Olena Collezione Privata Chardonnay 2022

We discovered and enjoyed Isole e Olena wine at a spectacular wine and dinner outing at Bruna’s Ristorante in Chicago’s Little Italy as featured in this post - Wine & Dinner at Bruna’s in Chicago’s Little Italy.

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Having enjoyed that label from this producer, I was eager to try another wine from their portfolio, especially a unique varietal and appellation offering such as this. 

This unique limited release Tuscan Chardonnay is from the historic Chianti Classico estate Isole e Olena. Founded in 1956 by Francesco De Marchi, Isole e Olena is located in the western part of the Chianti Classico denomination, near the village of Castellina in Chianti, in the commune of Barberina Val d’Elsa.

The De Marchi family were originally from the north of Piedmont, between Val D’Aosta and the Italian side of Switzerland, where they had very small vineyards which were abandoned after World War Two. 

The Isole e Olena estate was bought by Francesco De Marche, Paolo’s father in 1956. It consisted of two abandoned hamlets, Isole and Olena, and the surrounding vineyards. 

Francesco’s son, Paolo De Marchi, took over the estate in 1975. De Marchi was born in Turin and studied agricultural sciences, viticulture, and winemaking at the university there, and as soon as he graduated and finished his training, he moved to the estate in Tuscany, and was responsible for Isole e Olena until its eventual sale in 2022. 

When he arrived in Tuscany in the mid-1970s, the Chianti appellation required “a huge number” of white grapes in the blend. The appellation rules changed in 1984, greatly reducing the requirement for white grapes in the Chianti blend which dramatically improved the wines. From his second harvest, Pablo  tagged the best Sangiovese vines, through what was known as “massal selection” based upon how the grapes perform in the vineyard, and transitioned to making a 100% Sangiovese wine from these better-quality vines.

In 1980, De Marchi started bottling this wine under the name Cepparello, named for the little creek which runs dry most of the season through the estate, a Sangiovese from old vines, aged in barrique. At the time, pure Sangiovese wines could not legally be called Chianti Classico. This wine eventually became the flagship signature wine of Isole e Olena and one of the first Super Tuscan wines. 

After ten years of working with these tagging and tracking the wines, in 1987, he planted a vineyard grafted from the best vines to concentrate in one vineyard, vines of the same age with the same rootstocks.

In the end, the vine selections were registered by a nursery and ultimately many new vineyards in the Chianti Classico DOCG were planted with vine selections from Isole e Olena, becoming a standard bearer of quality for the area. 

When De Marchi was considering retirement, there were no direct family members to take over the estate. De Marchi’s son Luca was already running the original family estate Proprietà Sperino in Lessona.

In 2022, De Marchi sold the estate to the French luxury group EPI, whose portfolio includes Champagne houses Rare and Charles Heidsieck as well as Biondi Santi in Montalcino. 

De Marchi remained as CEO through the transition to new estate director Emanuele Reolon who was appointed to continue the vision of Paolo De Marchi’s legacy of quality and excellence in viticulture and winemaking in a faithful expression of the domaine’s terroir.

The Isole e Olena estate covers 138 acres of vineyards, sitting at 1,148 – 1,476 feet above sea level on soils of galestro and marly schist. 

This Tuscan Chardonnay release was rated 95 points by Jame Suckling and Robert Parker, 94 points by Wilfred Wong of Wine.com and 92 points by Wine Spectator.

My thoughts were the same as expressed by Wilfred Wong of Wine.com, who wrote, “ I admit it, I rarely think of Tuscany as a place to satisfy my Chardonnay cravings. The remarkable 2022 Isole e Olena Collezione Privata took me by surprise. At first sniff, I thought, "Hmm, pretty interesting!" As I continue to savor it, I realize how significant this experience was going to be.”

Winemaker Notes - “Light greenish gold in color, the Chardonnay is aromatic on the nose, with spicy, buttery perfumes. On the palate it balances ripe fruit, fresh bread crust from the oven, with a hint of spice from the oak aging and a long, slightly citrus finish.”

Pale golden, greenish straw colored, medium bodied, polished, balanced and somewhat elegant with subdued poached pear , peach and citrus notes on a layer of cinnamon spice, hints of stone fruits, vanilla, toasty oak and butterscotch, integrated acidity, a zesty acidic grip on the long persistent finish.

RM 93 points. 

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Kosta Browne Chardonnay at The Cellar Wine Bistro Lafayette

Kosta Browne Chardonnay at The Cellar Wine Bistro Lafayette

Traveling to Linda’s hometown to visit family, and for a wake and funeral of a departed dear lifelong friend, we stayed and dined in the nearest city, Lafayette, Indiana. 

At the end of a long week of travel and events, we sought and found a delightful relaxing venue for a late night small bites dinner with fine wine for a perfect much needed decompression and wind-down. 

The Cellar Wine Bistro in Lafayette (IN) offers a broad imaginative selection of fine wines to accompany and pair with menu of small plates, cheese, charcuterie, specialties and desserts. There is a small selection of Wines By the Glass (WBTG), as well as the full bottle wine list. 

The bistro shares its space with Réveille Coffee Bar, which operates during the day

Cellar Wine Bistro is owned operated by two sisters Michelle and Marla. Michelle, spent time in California and brings back home to Indiana the Santa Barbara wine scene culture. They are assisted by Kat who applies her 20+ years experience in the food and beverage industry, and Purdue degree in Food & Nutrition to prepare the dining menu offerings, focusing on seasonal fare and collaborating with local producers and farmers.

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We ordered a cheese plate with fruits and bread, the focaccio bread plate, olives, and the special of New Zealand Green Lipped mussels served baked on the half shell with escargot butter.

 

For a wine accompaniment I selected the finest ultra-premium label available on the winelist. 

Kosta Brown “116” Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2021 

This wine is from producers Dan Kosta and Michael Browne who produce a portfolio of ultra-premium Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays. 

Kosta Browne Winery in Sebastopol, California, has gained fame and acclaim for its highly sought-after Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, with wines sourced from leading vineyards in California (Russian River Valley, Sonoma Coast, and Santa Lucia Highlands) and Oregon's Willamette Valley, plus Burgundy, France. 

Since founding in 1997, Kosta Browne has become synonymous with crafting some of the finest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in California.

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We first met Dan Kosta and tasted their wines at the Wine Spectator Grand Tour in Chicago in 2011 (shown with the author below), which we featured in these pages in this blogpost - Grand Tour Chicago - Wine Tasting Extravaganza.

Founders Dan Kosta and Michael Browne met when they worked together at a restaurant in Sonoma County. To pursue their love of wine, they pooled their limited resources to buy their first grapes. Michael built relationships with Northern California’s premier growers, while Dan, with support from third partner Chris Costello, focused on marketing and selling their wine.

Kosta Browne Winery was founded in 1997 with the ambition to create world class wines. In 2009, they were awarded Wine Spectator’s #1 Wine of the Year for their 2009 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir.

They source from highly acclaimed vineyards & growers spanning the Sonoma Coast, the Russian River Valley, the cool Santa Lucia Highlands, the coastal Sta. Rita Hills, Sonoma County Anderson Valley, and the hallowed terroirs of Burgundy, France. 

Today, Kosta Browne wines are crafted under the leadership of Head Winemaker Julien Howsepian. In 2019, rising star Julien Howsepian was named just the third winemaker in Kosta Browne’s history at the age of 34 building on the winemaking foundation established by Co-founder Michael Browne.

Julien helped expand the Kosta Browne portfolio to Oregon’s majestic Willamette Valley and the legendary vineyards of Gevrey-Chambertin, Beaune, Pommard, Volnay and Meursault in Burgundy, France.

A first-generation American, Julien was born to a French father and a Dutch mother who inspired in him appreciation for wine. Raised in Northern California’s Bay Area, Julien regularly traveled to France to visit family, including relatives in the wine industry. He studied at UC Davis, where he earned a degree in viticulture and enology. Prior to joining Kosta Browne, Julien gained hands-on experience at several notable California estates and in New Zealand’s acclaimed Hawkes Bay region.

Julien joined Kosta Browne in 2012 and quickly established himself as an invaluable member of the team with an innovative, detail-oriented approach to winemaking and a love of blending. Working alongside Michael Browne, Julien progressed from production assistant to cellar master to assistant winemaker, and winemaker in 2019. In 2025, he was honored as one of “the best young leaders” in the wine industry when he was named one of the Beverage Information Group’s “40 Under 40.”

The Kosta Browne portfolio consists of more than a dozen single vineyard designated ultra-premium Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, and the “Appellation Series”, a collections of blends from each of the appellations where they source grapes from leading grower vineyards. 

Kosta Browne “One Sixteen” Russian River Valley Chardonnay  2021 

The Kosta Browne One Sixteen Chardonnay is named after the Gravenstein Highway 116 which cuts through the town of Sebastopol, and showcases the character of the Green Valley sub-appellation in the Russian River Valley.

The Russian River Valley in Sonoma County is defined by its maritime climate with cool ocean fog that funnels inland through the Russian River corridor, moderating temperatures and creating ideal conditions for slow, even Chardonnay ripening. The extended growing season promotes complexity, crisp acidity, and expressive aromatics.

The 2021 One Sixteen Chardonnay draws fruit from eight outstanding vineyards, including Ritchie, Heintz, and Keefer Ranch, situated in the coolest reaches of the AVA. These sites benefit from sandy Goldridge soils and consistent fog cover, allowing the grapes to develop nuanced flavors without overripening. 

The others, Winner’s Circle, Zio Tony Ranch, Lone Oak, Bootlegger’s Hill and El Diablo Vineyards round out the blend. 

The clonal diversity is Wente, Mt. Eden, Dijon 95 and 548, and Clone 4, which contributes to layered textures and aromatic complexity.

Winemaker Notes: “The collection of famous Chardonnay vineyards that we work with along the famous Route 116, are in the coolest and most sought after areas of the Russian River Valley. Individual pressed lots were fermented in barrel or foudres, all 100% native primary and malolactic fermentations, which adds depth and complexity to the finished wine. With brilliant clarity and a bouquet of green apple, pear, and persimmon aromas, this radiant Chardonnay makes a stunning first impression. The palate strikes a lovely balance between round texture and bright acidity, with succulent orchard fruit flavors and a kiss of French oak that evolve into a long, shimmering finish.95 points James Suckling - "Expressive aromas of preserved lemons, lime zest, flint and river stones. The palate is medium-bodied with bright acidity and a creamy texture, giving notes of orchard fruit, grapefruit, yellow apples and pastry. A good balance of power and finesse."

Fermentation was conducted in a mix of 83% French oak barrels and 17% large foudres. The wine aged for 14 months, including 30% in new French oak, 4% in new Austrian oak, and 20% in wood cask. Prior to bottling, 66% of the blend was transferred to stainless steel for 6 months, polishing the texture and brightening acidity.

3700 cases were produced.

This release was awarded 92 points by Wine Spectator. 

Golden straw colored with subtle green hues, medium full bodied, rich, round harmonious well balanced and polished, bright vibrant flavors of mango, green apple and honeysuckle hints of peach and pineapple are accented by notes of toasted brioche, oak and baking spices with lively acidity on a delicious creamy lingering finish. 

RM 94 points. 

I enjoyed this One Sixteen Chardonnay so much, when we got home, I immediately went and picked up some more at Binny’s, our local big box beverage center. 

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We met and talked with Kat about her preparations and presentations and she alerted us to her incredible cheesecake which we enjoyed with a tawny port aperitif for a fitting finish to a delightful outing. 

BBQ Ribs with Big Red Wines

 BBQ Ribs with Big Red Wines 

Visiting The Cove, our Destin, FL, vacation rental with friends, and in-laws, all from Indiana, Linda prepared BBQ ribs with corn on the cob and baked potatoes, and salad. 

To accompany the dinner, I opened two wine from Indiana producers, one from a winery and vineyard we all pass often on the highway, and another, from near our Alma Matre Indiana University down in Bloomington.

I’ve written about Carpenter Creek Cellars and their Indiana Produced Wines in these pages in this earlier blogpost. 

 

I also opened this 50 year anniversary iconic Napa Cab, to commemorate all of our Fiftieth’s, as we were in each other’s weddings, a long while ago, but this was the first time we’d all been together since our anniversaries. 

We served this wine as part of our celebration wine flight during our Gala Family Anniversary Celebration Dinner at Uptown Cafe, Bloomington, IN, featured in these pages in this blogpost, and several other vintage releases for such applicable anniversaries over the years. 

Eric picked up and brought two hearty big red wines for the occasion - each a perfect complement to the BBQ. 

 

 

I opened and served this Aussie Cab/Shiraz blend first, thinking it would be bigger and more complex than the Prisoner, and was wrong, as they turned out to have the opposite relative profiles from what I expected. Fun with Mollydooker, as Eric, as well as Linda are Mollydookers - (Australian for left handed person (s)). We’ve written about Mollydooker and our fun with their portfolio of wines often these pages …  

Finally, we closed with this unique Indiana Red Dessert wine. Too sweet for most, but inviting with Tiramius dessert, and the salad! 

Great food, fun, fellowship, celebrating, reminiscing…. Fun with wine! 

Carpenter Creek Traminette with Mexican Dinner

Carpenter Creek Cellars Traminette with Mexican Chicken & Spanish Rice & Beans

Linda took the remaining meat from a roasted whole chicken and prepared a Mexican Chicken with Spanish Rice, Beans and Corn and Cheese crust for dinner. I pulled from the cellar a rare Traminette wine, known for pairing with robust vibrant spicy foods. 

We tasted and acquired this wine at the winery, featured in a previous blogpost - Carpenter Creek Cellars and Indiana Produced Wines, about the producer, the grape and the wine, excerpted here. 

Carpenter Creek Cellars is a family-run Indiana winery with a focus on producing high-quality local wines that capture and showcase Indiana and Midwest terroir.

I wrote at that time about the importance of selecting the right grapes to grow in an area based on terroir (terˈwär) - all the elements that affect the grapes in that location such as but not limited to climate, sun exposure, topography, soil, drainage and so on. The imperative is, of course, to determine and cultivate grapes most tolerant of or best suited to the terroir. 

Great wine producers and regions around the world are all noted for the specific wine grape varietals symbolic for their region and its distinctive terroir - Bordeaux varietals for example which are also suited for Napa Valley in the US. 

Traminette is the one popular grapes selected for Indiana and Illinois wines, a white hybrid grape that has become Indiana’s signature wine grape, selected for its versatility and suitability in the state’s climate, soil and growing conditions. It is one of the most popular of the eighteen different varieties of grapes grown in Indiana on a total of 600 acres of vineyard lands. 

Indeed, the whole concept of AVA's, American Viticultural Areas, is based on federally-recognized regions defined either by political boundaries, such as the name of a county, state or country, or by a designated area for that AVA. All the criteria for an AVA come down to terroir so that all wines from that AVA can be presumed to have the same characteristics, or from grapes grown under the same conditions. This is the same as in the old world wine producing countries, where they have rigorous grape growing and wine producing regulations subject to AOC - Appellation d'origine contrôlée regulations in France, and DOC and DOCG in Italy ((Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG) is the superior classification to DOC). 

Notably, there are 60 official appellations in Bordeaux, seventeen in Napa Valley and nineteen in Sonoma County. Indiana has two designated AVAs, the Indiana Uplands AVA in the center of the state at the southern border along the Ohio River, and the Ohio River Valley AVA straddling the Ohio River along the southern border of the state.

Carpenter Creek Cellars produces this Traminette wine made from Traminette grapes grown in Indiana and neighboring states, known for its floral aromas, fruity flavors, and a spicy finish reminiscent of its parent, Gewürztraminer. 

This wine is described by the producer as pairing well with spicy dishes like Thai, Chinese, or Mexican cuisine, as well as heavier white meats such as turkey or ham. 

Traminette is a cross between Gewürztraminer and the Joannes Seyve 23.416 grape, initially bred at the University of Illinois in 1965 and further developed at Cornell University. 

Traminette was officially chosen by the Indiana Wine Grape Council as the state’s signature wine grape, representing the region’s identity. Traminette’s cold hardiness allows it to thrive across Indiana, surviving harsh winters with minimal bud damage and regrowing after freeze events.

Notably, Carpenter Creek lost much of their vineyard varietal plantings due to severe winter freeze conditions and rely largely on importing grapes from southern Indiana, neighboring states as well as California. 

According to Purdue University agricultural Extension office, the Traminette grape was designed to retain Gewürztraminer’s floral and spicy intensity while offering cold hardiness and resistance to fungal diseases, making it well-suited for Indiana’s variable climate. Traminette ripens mid- to late-season and is more tolerant to spring frosts due to its later bud break.

Traminette wines offer a broad spectrum of sweetness levels, from crisp dry to lusciously sweet, making them versatile and suitable for various tastes. The sweetness levels among Traminette wines vary widely, ranging from dry to sweet, depending on the winemaker’s choices and style preferences. The level of sweetness is determined by winemaker decisions about fermentation and finishing (backsweetening, skin contact, pH adjustment, etc.).

This label is crafted from vineyard sources across the Midwest, hence it is labeled ‘American (White) Wine’, as opposed to Indiana wine specifically. As noted above, Carpenter Creek source grapes from Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and California.

The Carpenter Creek rear label shows this wine as being moderately dry on the spectrum of dryness to sweetness. I would move the dial from left to right and characterize this as moderately sweet. 

Carpenter Creek Cellars Traminette NV

The Carpenter Creek packaging for this label is as unique as the grape, distributed in a blue glass bottle. 

This was an appropriate pairing, the sweetness and spiciness of the wine harmonizing and enhancing the tangy spiciness of the Mexican dish flavoring. 

Golden straw colored, medium bodied, rich unctuous and sweet, similar to a Riesling, ripe pear and green apple fruits with notes of clove and cinnamon spice, floral and hint of honeysuckle and apricot on a sweet moderate acidic finish. 

RM 87 points. 

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