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2020 1NGREDIENT Viognier Ballard Canyon

A natural wine, fermented and aged on the skins for 10 months in amphora, then hand bottled and hand labelled. Learn more about our natural 1NGREDIENT label.

Beautiful golden, slightly hazy color with fascinating aromas and flavors of apricots, beeswax, honey covered oats, honeycomb, and citrus, the '20 1ngredient Viognier coats the pallet with an oily, round texture showing fine tannins and bright lifted acidity finishing clean with more stone fruits, honey, and honeydew melon. Fun, complex, and exciting right now, the wine should age beautifully for the next decade or more and perhaps even longer.

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Critic Reviews

  • Terroirist

    92 Points

    Deep orange col­or. An invit­ing but also head-scratch­ing aro­mat­ic dis­play, with orange peel, hon­ey, shaved gin­ger, lemon drops, pineap­ple, white tea – fas­ci­nat­ing stuff. On the palate, this acid­i­ty is laser-focused, which becomes key in bal­anc­ing these com­plex tex­tur­al dynam­ics. Yel­low apples, lemons, pineap­ple, laced with salt­ed almonds, gin­ger, hon­ey­suck­le, with some min­er­al under­tones. Deli­cious, intrigu­ing, adven­tur­ous but clean, like a gate­way band into a unique genre, this wine has a ton to offer. Fer­ment­ed and aged on the skins in ampho­ra for 10 months.

  • Wine Enthusiast

    91 Points

    Made from Viog­nier aged in clay ampho­ra, with no added yeast or sul­fur, this is a unique and intrigu­ing bot­tling from Steve and Tom Beck­men. Hon­ey col­ored and cloudy in the glass, the nose offers apri­cot jam, stone and sub­dued pineap­ple aro­mas, lead­ing into a palate of man­go and chalk. Edi­tors’ Choice. — Matt Kettmann

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