Behind the Blend: Crafting Cuvée Wines
Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Cuvée Wines! In this blog, we're going into detail about the Donelan wine blending process. A Fine Example David Milner, Winemaker at Donelan Family Wines - a winery highly acclaimed for their Syrahs and Rhône-style blends - shares how he approaches cuvée wines at Donelan. Milner refers to four bottles as “purpose-built” cuvée blends and routinely what reviewers love most. They include the: Moriah: an old-world style blend made from Syrah, Grenache, and/or Mourvedre, depending on the vintage Christine and Keltie: both 100% Syrah blends made from several of the same vineyards, but crafted very differently Syrah Grande: a “super cuvée” 100%
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