VINTAGE: 2016
GRAPES:
GRENACHE BLANC
HAND HARVESTED:
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
SOIL: LIMESTONE
VINEYARD:
RANCHO BOA VISTA
YEASTS:
INDIGENOUS
BATTONAGE:
6 MONTHS
MALOLACTIC FERMINTATION:
SPONTANEOUS PARTIAL
BOTTLED:
JUNE 7, 2017 [UNFINED, UNFILTERED]
ABV: 13.95%

Lizette2016

145 cases made

Lizette, lovingly named in tribute to the matriarch of the Haskell family, is a gorgeous example of a 100% Grenache Blanc. Quite popular in France, Grenache Blanc is now grown more in the Central Coast, and we’re proud to have access to some of the best grapes available through Rancho Boa Vista. The spontaneous partial malolactic fermentation helps give the wine its body, but this is a very lively wine, with plenty of acidity. Sommeliers love this wine!

Now available to Collectors Club members only, Lizette does not need decanting. She’s best served between 48 – 53 degrees and is great drinking now or will only get better for another 10 years.

3 bottle limit.

$55.00 / 750mL Collectors Club only

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VINTAGE: 2016
GRAPES:
GRENACHE BLANC
HAND HARVESTED:
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
SOIL: LIMESTONE
VINEYARD:
RANCHO BOA VISTA
YEASTS:
INDIGENOUS
BATTONAGE:
6 MONTHS
MALOLACTIC FERMINTATION:
SPONTANEOUS PARTIAL
BOTTLED:
JUNE 7, 2017 [UNFINED, UNFILTERED]
ABV: 13.95%

92 Boscoe 2016 Lizette Rancho Boa Vista Vineyard Grenache Blanc (Ballard Canyon). A heady mix of citrus peels, briny seashore, tart pear and wet stone make for a very mineral-driven nose on this bottling. The sip is also loaded with stone elements, but also shows rounded apple and pear flesh against the brisk acidity.

—M.K., Wine Enthusiast

Rancho Boa VistaTHE VINEYARD

Rancho Boa Vista

2016 release notes: Block 6 of our 2016 vintage saw a colder winter with a comparatively warm spring, leading to bud break in late March. Temperatures increased in May and June; however, August was unseasonably cold, with the vines seeing averages of 73 degrees during the day and 53 degrees at night. Grenache Blanc needs daytime heat to ripen (85-90 degrees), and we finally received three very hot days in a row late into September. Because a cold spell was predicted to follow, we decided to harvest on September 30 at 9:30 p.m. after the second day of 90-plus degree heat. This started the journey of our grapes for Boscoe’s 2016 Lizette, which ended in the bottle on June 7 of the following year.

PLANTED: 2010    ACREAGE: 10   LOCATION: SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA   APPELLATION: BALLARD CANYON AVA   ELEVATION: 200 TO 250 FEET   SOIL: LIMESTONE   GRAPES GROWN: PETIT SYRAH, SYRAH, GRENACHE, GRENACHE BLANC   TRELLISING: VSP   OWNERS: ANDREW SOLT AND CLAUDIA FALKENBURG

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