About This Product :
The Grape:
(2022 vintage) 40% Grenache Blanc, 30% Roussanne, 20% Viognier and 10% Marsanne.
“We originally created the 2008 version of this wine to celebrate our 10th anniversary as a winery in 2010. With the exotic complexity and food friendliness of a white Rhône-style blend, it is a “red-drinker’s white,” a complex alternative to the more one-dimensional white varietal wines like Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc. It is the perfect complement to its namesake shellfish, as well as chicken or pork dishes with buttery-creamy sauces. *Coquille is pronounced “ko-keel” and it is French for shellfish or scallop, like the scallop shells on the Shelton family coat of arms.”
The Appellation:
87% Paso Robles, 13% Mendocino Co. **all Sustainably Grown.
The Wine:
Enticing nose of spicy pears and white peaches, almond paste/marzipan, a touch of honeysuckle perfume. Multi-dimensional (many layers), a hard-to-describe range of aromatics, intriguing, almost mysterious! In the mouth it is crisply dry yet creamy and round and full-bodied, with nice almond paste on crisp-yet-juicy pear fruit.
100% barrel fermented with 7 different yeast strains, including about 15% wild (uninoculated) fermented, then stirred weekly for 5 months. About 50% finished malo-lactic fermentation.
8 months in all older French barrels: 70% oak, 30% Acacia, 25% 2-yr-old, 75% older/neutral.
- Average Brix at Harvest: Rou 26.5/ Vio 25.0/ GB 22.0/ Mars 19.5 Brix
Alcohol: 13.3%
Total Acidity: 0.60 gm/100ml
pH: 3.50
Cases Produced: 1,049 cases (750ml)
Release Date: September 1st, 2023
The Winery:
Based out of an industrial park in the city of Santa Rosa, Carol Shelton started at UC Davis in 1974, and is still making excellent wines with passion ’til this day. Carol has won Winemaker of the Year five times, has countless gold medals for her wines and was named one of eight Pioneer Women Winemakers of Sonoma County in 2005. She continues to win awards and accolades – her 2011 Wild Thing Zinfandel was included in the Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2014.
With many harvests under her belt and her passion for winemaking still strong, Carol Shelton has become an iconic woman winemaker. For Carol, the best is yet to come.
