Sylviane Estate Collection
2023 Sylviane Estate Blanc
Our 2023 Sylviane Estate Blanc unfolds with acid-driven structure like scaffolding, stacking up and across in precise, repeated layers. Flavors of stone fruits, pear, and lemon zest complexed with oyster shells and sea spray dance on the palate, building in depth and intensity with time.
Tasting notes
Our 2023 Sylviane Estate Blanc is wonderfully perfumed with citrus blossoms in jasmine green tea, fresh oysters and sea spray. The demeanor is delicate, but serious. In the mouth it is at first deceivingly soft with a mineral-inflected acidity but then gains momentum, unfolding like scaffolding into a fine, saline structure layered with flavors of stone fruits, Bosc pear and lemon zest. The seemingly never-ending finish is saline, firm and still expanding, with suggestions of beeswax and lemon chiffon. If there exists a space between refinement and fun, this is it.
Vintage
In an age of attention that is dominated by disaster and calamity, 2023 in Northern California was such a great growing season that it may be almost entirely forgotten by those of us who had the immense pleasure to experience it. This will be a vintage that we rediscover time and time again over the coming decades, but struggle to remember what unimaginably ideal conditions could have existed to produce the kind of depth, structure and finesse that these wines will exude for generations to come.
