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2012 La Proportion Dorée

Wine Details
Place of Origin

United States

Sonoma County

Sonoma

Color

White

Grape/Blend

other white varietal

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Luc and Jodie Morlet completed their new winery off Highway 29 north of St. Helena in early 2012, in time to vinify the 2012 vintage. Luc described '12 as "an ideal season: a bit like 2005." He practiced what he described as "progressive crop thinning," starting early and further reducing the vine loads around the time of the veraison. "The 2012s can be hollow in the middle where yields were not controlled," he noted. The 2012 pinots here finished bone-dry--under one gram per liter in residual sugar--whereas Morlet's 2011s were generally close to two grams. Incidentally, he compares the young 2013s to the 2001s: "classic, not hedonistic."