Great Northwest Wine top 100 wines of 2014:
64. Treos Wines 2013 Dry Muscat, Willamette Valley, $21
Monmouth, Ore., winemaker Dave Jepson has a passion and a knack with producing Muscat in a dry style, and for a second straight vintage
he’s merited our top rating with it. While he continues to use Muscat
Ottonel, he changed up the blend just a bit from last year by
substituting Muscat Blanc for the historic Muscat of Alexandria. The
resulting wine remains just as fanciful with classic Muscat aromas of
rosewater, lychee, ripe pineapple and white flowers. The drink is clean,
bright, dry and lovely with tropical fruit flavors and rosewater.
There’s complexity on the midpalate with a slight sheen of lanolin
before the cleansing arrival of acidity and a finish of orange oil.
Fortunately, he’s increased production by about 50 percent, and while he
packages it in a 375-millilter bottle, don’t confuse this for a
late-harvest or sticky dessert wine.Production: 90 cases
Alcohol: 13%
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