A bright, engaging nose of fresh apple, pear, and honeysuckle engages immediately. Bright apple and stone fruit flavors with excellent freshness and particularly lively acidity carry into the finish.

This late ripening variety was harvested in late September at 23.6° Brix. The grapes were quickly pressed and cold settled for 24 hours. The juice was partially cold fermented in tank and finished in mature French oak barrels. The wine was then aged for four months before bottling.

Pale yellow color. A bright, engaging nose of fresh apple, pear, and honeysuckle engages immediately. These aromas follow through to the palate with bright apple and stone fruit flavors with excellent freshness and particularly lively acidity carrying into the finish.

The 2001 Bonterra Roussanne is a perfect aperitif wine and will flatter smoked or spicy appetizers, baked oysters, and a wide variety of fresh seafood.

"An effusively flowery, honeyed wine, brimming with bright aromas of butterscotch and smoke, apricots, vanilla and cinnamon. It's exotically fruity and rich, with complex flavors ranging from apricot preserves to ginger. Tasty on its own."

"...Roussanne has emerged as Bonterra's star of the 1999 vintage. This charming, juicy, sprightly white is a real crowd pleaser. Fermented in used oak barrels and aged 'sur lies' for seven months, it shows some oak spice but never strays from its fresh and engaging fruit focus. Effusive scents of white peach, floral, citrus and green apple jump out of the glass. The body is rich and smooth with bright citrus flavours coming through in the long finish. Not a complex Roussanne intended to be studied and analysed, this one simply pleses and invites a second glass. Enjoy it for its youthful exuberance over the next two years."