Channing Daughters Winery - Sweet & Fortified

2017 Muscat de Boom

Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:28:58 GMT

2017 Muscat de Boom
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We are thrilled to have this exciting wine (for only the fourth time in CDW history) to release to our Wine Club. Our 2017 Muscat de Boom is a sweet, fortified, wildly aromatic wine! This wine is made in a style often called Vin doux Naturel (in the south of France). So, it's made from Muscat Ottonel grapes...a wild fermentation is started on the skins and allowed to go for a few days...then the wine was fortified with neutral grape spirits to arrest the fermentation and leave behind the residual sugar. We are left with a luscious, aromatic, textured and beguiling wine. Strong (18.2% alcohol), sweet (113 grams residual sugar...that's more than 10% sugar) and aromatic, this wine will light fireworks on your palate and send sensory signals to every part of your being! Aromas of Muscat grapes, dried apricots, caramelized peaches, baked apples, nuts, pineapple curd and golden raisins rise from the glass and the flavors tickle your taste buds. Crazy delicious just sipped by itself, our Muscat de Boom will also be great with classic sweet wine combos like blue cheese and foie gras preparations. Also great with nuts and fruit-based desserts (especially containing apples, pears, apricots and peaches). Honestly, it's an elixir that will just make you smile. Chill lightly, maybe turn on some George Clinton and enjoy! There is a tiny amount, only 137 cases produced.

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VerVino Vermouth – Variation 6 – 500 mL

Tue, 1 Dec 2015 08:11:00 GMT

VerVino Vermouth – Variation 6 – 500 mL
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VerVino Vermouth is a fortified, aromatized wine. Inspired by the long history of vermouth and aromatized wines and wanting to make local, seasonal examples we fortified our wine with neutral grape brandy and macerated twenty to forty different aromatic local botanicals in the wine, then sweetened it slightly with local honey. All of the botanicals were grown or foraged by us or our farmer friends all within a few miles from the winery. Marilee Foster, Amber Waves, The Milk Pail, and Dave Falkowski played important roles as did Mary Woltz whose Bees' Needs honey (which come from the same farms as the plants) was used. We have made six different variations, a white VerVino with Spring botanicals, a white and a pink with early Summer botanicals and a white and again a pink with late Summer botanicals and finally a red from autumn botanicals. These VerVino vermouths are a reflection of our place through wine as well as other edible aromatic plants. It is amazing to see the other farmers we worked with have an opportunity to taste their work from a glass long after the harvest is over! These VerVino vermouths are a reflection of our place through wine as well as other edible aromatic plants. We encourage you to drink this wonderful elixir many ways but suggest you start by first tasting and smelling it on its own at cellar temp. Then move on to chilled VerVino... over ice... maybe a spritz... or some juice. Go wild and make a martini or some manhattans...next create your own VerVino cocktails! We have found we love it (and it goes dangerously fast) when we fill glasses with crushed ice, pour over with VerVino and top with a bit of lemonade and garnish with some mint or maybe lemon balm... oh boy! Many have now tasted our wonderful concoction and honestly we have been stunned by the reactions. This really is supremely aromatic, tasty and inspiring stuff. This is an example of a response emailed by a friend: "We drank the VerVino last night. It was so enjoyable and so complicated; I'm still trying to figure out what feedback to share. We finished nearly half the bottle. First straight up, then on the rocks, then with soda and gin. (Seriously.) I kept having images of fairies and other woodland creatures drinking this ambrosia." You may by now be asking what the botanicals are that we and our friends grew, harvested and aromatized the wine with. There is a long history of keeping these recipes proprietary which is intriguing and somewhat fun. But we like you to have a window inside and thus the label is an actual photograph of the plants steeping in the wine. You don't see everything but a quite a bit can be discerned... calendula, fennel, sage, nasturtium, lemon balm, rose, basil, spiked za'tar, and much, much more. We believe VerVino is a unique expression of our terroir and joins a long history, thousands of years really, of people fortifying and adding special plants to wine and not only is VerVino a local vermouth but a seasonal one as well.

VerVino Vermouth - Variation 6 (autumn; red) - 500 ml bottle

Base of red wine...often Petit Verdot and Sculpture Garden.

Botanicals include apples, Asian pears, pumpkin, butternut squash, calendula, sage, borage and more...

VVV6 Batch #1 190 cases / made in October/November of 2014 / Alc.19.26% / residual sugar 19.45 grams

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2004 Pazzo

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:08:00 GMT

2004 Pazzo
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Pazzo is delicious. Pazzo is an island wine. Pazzo is a fortified and madeirized wine made from the Merlot grape, the first and only on Long Island and maybe the world! This is the second bottling of our 2004 Pazzo. The first version spent five years in barrel, this version, the second coming (bottling), spent a little over seven years in barrel. For a long time we had wanted to create a wine to pair with all the activities that come after the entrée; whether that is a cheese course, or nuts or a dessert featuring chocolate or fruit or just a tipple sitting by a warm fire. Now we have just the right drink and it only took us five years to make the first bottling and 8 years to make the second! It all started with merlot fruit from the 2004 vintage that was hand-harvested and crushed by foot in small one ton bins as usual. The wine was fermented dry, then fortified to 18% alcohol (with neutral grape spirits), put in barrels and placed outside to madeirize for five years. This means the wine was subjected to the elements, the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter. The wine evaporates and is not topped up. The wine cooks, the wine oxidizes. Something magical begins to happen to the aromas and flavors, just like what happened to the Madeiras in the ballasts of ships making a trip across the equator a hundred and fifty years ago. Our Pazzo is filled with aromas and flavors of figs, caramel, orange peel, Christmas spices, raspberry liqueur, nuts and dried fruit. So when we finally decided to bottle some of this elixir, we took half of the wine (the other half remained outside for another couple years and that is this new release!) and when the merlot arrived for our rosato we pressed and settled the juice and added a bit of that sweet merlot juice to give our Pazzo just a pinch of sweetness. This was the final touch to bring the wine into that pleasure place of great balance, length and complexity. Pazzo means “mad” or “crazy” in Italian and this is our play and nod to the island of Madeira, and her wines, and the fact we are a little nuts to make a wine like this…though when you taste it you will be as happy as we are that we did. This second bottling is remarkably similar to the first with a bit more richness from continued evaporation (the Angel’s share) and a bit more depth and complexity. 228 cases (of half bottles) produced.

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VerVino Vermouth – Variation 1 – 500 mL

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:08:00 GMT

VerVino Vermouth – Variation 1 – 500 mL
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VerVino Vermouth - Variation 1 (spring; white) - 500 ml bottle

Base of Sauvignon Blanc. 30 plus botanicals.

Botanicals include calendula, fennel, sage, nasturtium, lemon balm, rose, basil, black birch, chives and spiked za'tar.

VVV1 Batch #1 208 cases / made in early June 2013 / alc. 18 % / residual sugar 4.16 grams per liter

VVV1 Batch #2 358 cases / made in early June 2014 / alc. 19.5% / residual sugar 5.78 grams per liter

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VerVino Vermouth – Variation 2 – 500 mL

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:08:00 GMT

VerVino Vermouth – Variation 2 – 500 mL
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VerVino Vermouth - Variation 2 (early summer; white) - 500 ml bottle

Base of Sauvignon Blanc. 30 plus botanicals. Slightly spicy...

Botanicals include thai green chili peppers, paper lantern habaneros, jalapeño, borage, tarragon, cucumbers, angelica and zucchini blossoms.

VVV2 Batch #1 232 cases / made in July 2013 / alc. 20% / residual sugar 5.5 grams

VVV2 Batch #2 188 cases / made in July 2014 / alc. 19.7% / residual sugar 7.95 grams

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VerVino Vermouth – Variation 3 – 750 mL

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:08:00 GMT

VerVino Vermouth – Variation 3 – 750 mL
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VerVino Vermouth - Variation 3 (early summer; pink) - 750 ml bottle

Base of rosé wine.

Thirty plus botanicals. Botanicals include beets, arugula, black birch, fennel, blueberries and much more.

VVV3 Batch #1 84 cases / made in July 2013 / alc. 19% / residual sugar 11.51 grams

VVV3 Batch #2 138 cases / made in July 2014 / alc. 19.4% / residual sugar 14.58 grams

VVV3 Batch #3 157 cases / made in July 2015 / alc. 21% / residual sugar 9.64 grams

Click here for cocktail recipes featuring our VerVino Variation 3

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VerVino Vermouth – Variation 4 – 500 mL

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:08:00 GMT

VerVino Vermouth – Variation 4 – 500 mL
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VerVino Vermouth - Variation 4 (late summer; pink) - 500 ml bottle

Base of red and white wine.

Thirty plus botanicals. Botanicals include red and yellow watermelon, shitake mushrooms, carrots, rose petals, mint, rosemary and much more.

VVV4 Batch #1 198 cases / made in August/September 2013 / alc.19.8 % / residual sugar 9.65 grams

VVV4 Batch #2 237 cases / made in August/September 2014 / alc. 19.8% / residual sugar 10.05 grams

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VerVino Vermouth – Variation 5 – 500 mL

Wed, 1 Jul 2015 09:08:00 GMT

VerVino Vermouth – Variation 5 – 500 mL
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VerVino Vermouth - Variation 5 (late summer, white) - 500 ml bottle

Base of white wine, usually a blend like our Mosaico.

Thirty plus botanicals. Botanicals include musk melon, peaches, flowering basil, flowering dill, lemon balm, papalo, lemon verbena and more.

VVV5 Batch #1 182 cases / made in August/September 2013 / alc. 18.3% / residual sugar 7.93 grams

VVV5 Batch #2 208 cases / made in August/September 2014 / alc.19.9% / residual sugar 9.29 grams

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