Madam Preston
Rhône-Style White
Dry Creek Valley, Certified Organic
2006, Sold Out

Madam Emily Preston was an herbalist and spiritual healer who plied her trade and preserved her clients in the years straddling 1900. The place was the small community of Preston outside
Cloverdale in northern Sonoma County. Spiritual needs of its habitués were satisfied by Preston’s Church of Heaven on Probation as well as by potions concocted from locally-foraged herbs, spiced they say with opium and cannabis, plus copious amounts of alcohol.

At Preston of Dry Creek, not far from Cloverdale, we also cater to the spiritual needs of our followers. With Madam Preston we present an amalgam of white Rhône varietals—Rousanne, Viognier, and Marsanne—that is rich, ripe, and golden as the hills of northern Sonoma County. It is a potion worthy of the Preston tradition.

Our Madam Preston is a twist on the great white blends of Hermitage. We flip the proportions of Rousanne and Marsanne, and then add Viognier to heighten aromatics and complexity. The resulting heady bouquet of pear, honey, almonds and jasmine punctuates the opulence of the Marsanne and Rousanne.

Best consumed in its youth, Madam Preston is an excellent companion to truffled pasta dishes and glazed pork roasts. Or for after-dinner sipping with figs and aged cheese.

Estate Grown, Certified Organic
610 Cases Produced
CA Retail: $28.00
59% Rousanne, 30% Viognier, 11% Marsanne