#2 Hi-Time's Top Domestic White Wines of 2024
The boys at Dragonette bonded over a bottle of Didier Dagueneau and searched throughout Santa Barbara's Santa Ynez Valley to find vineyards that could best exemplify the enticing characteristics of this grape. They found those vineyards and now their Sauvignon Blancs have become some of our favorites in the entire store! Happy Canyon, with its unique soils and climate, warm to hot summer days and cool to cold evenings, is ideal for promoting full phenolic ripeness while still retaining critical acidity. The organically-farmed Vogelzang is situated on a gently sloping bed of well-drained, gravelly loam soil with serpentinite, and Dragonette controls all farming practices, from pruning to canopy management to yield control. Dragonette always does what's needed to help produce the best wines. Only 275 cases were produced, and Jeb Dunnuck honored this with 95 points, making it one of the highest scoring Sauvignon Blancs produced in California!
JEB DUNNUCK 95 POINTS! - "The 2022 Sauvignon Blanc Vogelzang Vineyard is a touch more exotic, with ripe stone fruits, spicy wood, caramelized orange, and honeyed minerality (there's almost a Riesling-like diesel quality) that carry to a richly textured, medium to full-bodied Sauvignon with nicely integrated acidity, a layered, balanced mouthfeel, and a great finish. It's another impeccably made, impressive Sauvignon Blanc from this team that can be drunk any time over the coming decade."
The boys at Dragonette bonded over a bottle of Didier Dagueneau and searched throughout Santa Barbara's Santa Ynez Valley to find vineyards that could best exemplify the enticing characteristics of this grape. They found those vineyards and now their Sauvignon Blancs have become some of our favorites in the entire store! Happy Canyon, with its unique soils and climate, warm to hot summer days and cool to cold evenings, is ideal for promoting full phenolic ripeness while still retaining critical acidity. The organically-farmed Vogelzang is situated on a gently sloping bed of well-drained, gravelly loam soil with serpentinite, and Dragonette controls all farming practices, from pruning to canopy management to yield control. Dragonette always does what's needed to help produce the best wines. Only 275 cases were produced, and Jeb Dunnuck honored this with 95 points, making it one of the highest scoring Sauvignon Blancs produced in California!
JEB DUNNUCK 95 POINTS! - "The 2022 Sauvignon Blanc Vogelzang Vineyard is a touch more exotic, with ripe stone fruits, spicy wood, caramelized orange, and honeyed minerality (there's almost a Riesling-like diesel quality) that carry to a richly textured, medium to full-bodied Sauvignon with nicely integrated acidity, a layered, balanced mouthfeel, and a great finish. It's another impeccably made, impressive Sauvignon Blanc from this team that can be drunk any time over the coming decade."
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