Tasting - Altisima Winery Muscat

 Name: Altisima Winery Muscat

Variety: 100% Muscat

Region: Temecula, California

Country: United States

Vintage Year: 2021

Price: $29.99

Winemaker Notes: This semi-sweet white is delicately refreshing with notes of cantaloupe, green tea, and honey with a soft elegant finish. 

Wine Folly Notes:

Muscat Blanc: pg. 138 - I definitely get the orange blossom notes and I can see the mandarin orange as well. There may be a hint of something I could see as honeysuckle, but it seems I can't say that I picked up on the lemons they mentioned, but this particular muscat does like the winery says, taste like freshly brewed green tea. 

My Review: Like the notes from the winemaker said, this wine smells like green tea, freshly brewed green tea. On the nose of this wine, there are pleasant aromas of green tea and ginseng along with some faint orange blossom aromas. There is also a hint of jasmine present. On the palate of this wine, the wine presents plenty of sweet notes right off the bat, with some acid following. The wine itself also has a nice rich mouthfeel to it. Just like on the nose, this wine tastes like fresh green tea with some orange blossom mixed in. It starts off tasting like green tea, morphs into orange blossom, and rounds back off as green tea again. Overall, this wine is an extremely interesting wine that brings forward flavors I would have not thought usually accompany wines. 

I did not sample this wine with any food.