HEART | Artists Series
2019 White Table Wine
At the end of May amidst quarantine we had an idea and acted quickly to bring it to life.
We created
HEART to celebrate our Winery, our Community and our Earth. We wanted to create something special in the bottle and send Love and Heart out into our world.
We wanted to make a new Channing Daughters wine, taking advantage of the wonderful raw materials we had in the cellar and produce a new symphonic white blend from the 2019 vintage. A response to our current situation. A wine that over-delivers Deliciousness and Joy and celebrates our Winery and our Community that is helping our small business and winery and vineyard survive during these crazy days.
After blending the wine, we began brainstorming about the name and label and all that seemed appropriate was "Heart". The idea, the word, the image, the love, the organ, the metaphor, the abstraction. We imagined a series of labels inspired by Heart and Channing Daughters Winery. We wanted 12 different labels of Love and Heart to adorn the wine and fill the case. We wanted local artists, deeply connected to us and the winery (that we would actually want to hug if allowed and had the chance to see them during quarantine). So, we asked a dozen stellar humans/local artists to create special artwork for this wine inspired by "Heart". We couldn't be more thrilled with what they all came up with and with this Gem of a wine and the Joy and Beauty created by this collaboration with our community and friends. We hope it brings the same joy and deliciousness and love and heart into your world and home.
❤Our 2019 Heart is a symphonic white blend that combines the best of six grape varieties. This is made from 40% Chardonnay (Musque clone), 30% Tocai Friulano, 11% Muscat Ottonel, 9% Pinot Grigio, 8% Sauvignon blanc and 2% Pinot Bianco. If you know our other wines this is something like a love child of the threesome Mosaico, Cuvee Tropical and Sylvanus. Just ponder that. Otherwise, you can imagine the wine as an exotic, wild chardonnay bolstered by aromatic bursts of Muscat aromas, fleshed out by the Pinots, with added verve, freshness and geometry provided by the Sauvignon Blanc and Tocai Friulano. This is a complex and unique white wine full of deliciousness and life. The texture is plump and beguiling with cleansing acidity and a long finish. The aromas and flavors are piercing and range in fruit character from citrus to tree to stone to tropical. The Muscat Ottonel and Musque clone of Chardonnay really promote those exotic, tropical, alluring aromatics. It can be hard to put the glass down. There is a generosity coupled with raciness in this dry wine that is quite satisfying and keeps one coming back for more. The Musque Chardonnay and the Muscat/Pinot Grigio/Pinot Bianco were all fermented ambiently/wild in stainless steel barrels. The Sauvignon Blanc was also fermented wild/ambiently but in 2 two-year old French oak barrels (8%) and the Tocai was inoculated and fermented separately in stainless steel barrels. After eight months on their lees the wines were blended together into a stainless steel tank. Our 2019 Heart was bottled on July 24th, 2020. This wine will pair beautifully with so many foods from the bounty of our bays and ocean that offer up a plethora of fish and shellfish to fresh local goat and cow's milk cheeses. Simply prepared summer and autumn veggies. Pastas, poultry and light pork and veal preps. Our Heart would easily stand up to some lightly spiced fare as well, so have fun and experiment with this one, you will love it!
One of the other things we wanted to do with this wine was offer incredible value. A crazy bang for the buck opportunity. Especially during these times where many of us are stressed and conserving resources and money for who knows what may come. And we know people want great wine at a great price and lots of us are drinking and cooking more at home, so we are pricing it at $16 a bottle! That's crazy we know, but we want you to take advantage and be able to drink more great wine for less. We produced 608 cases of this wine and we encourage you all to buy it by the case. We labeled the wine so it would allow us to have all 12 different artists' work in each limited-edition box. Get a case and get them all!*
We are eternally grateful for the participation and contribution of the wonderful artists involved in this project:
- Adam Baranello
- Philippe Cheng
- Mindy Dubin
- Jameson Ellis
- Marilee Foster
- Daniel Gonzales
- Lindsay Morris
- Jill Musnicki
- Ann Fristoe Stewart
- Bill Stewart
- James Christopher Tracy
- Almond Zigmund
* Please note: Purchasing a case gets you each artist's label (we enourage purchasing the case). Purchases under 12 bottles will be fulfilled randomly. We cannot guarantee specific label requests, however we will do our best to fulfill.
