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Bonobo Winery Releases 2020 Pinot Blanc
Posted on April 16, 2021
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., April 16, 2021 – Bonobo Winery, a family-owned vineyard on Michigan’s Old Mission Peninsula, is releasing its 2020 Pinot Blanc, among the winery’s first major releases of 2021, which many are calling a “beautifully structured, vibrant and fruity summer wine.” The 100 percent estate-grown Pinot Blanc is available now to wine club members and in the tasting room, or online at bonobowinery.com.
While Pinot Blanc shares the same genetic fingerprint as pinot noir, it often gets less respect. But these are wines with a hefty dose of virtue, and they are bright, well-rounded and full-bodied. Bonobo’s 2020 Pinot Blanc opens with honeysuckle and stone fruit aromas, and a slight touch of spice, complemented with juicy flavors of orchard fruit and citrus, which are rounded out with a chalky minerality.
MichiganUnited-statesTodd-oosterhouseMichigan-old-mission-peninsulaBonobo-wineryOld-mission-peninsulaPinot-blancPinot-grisSauvignon-blancPinot-noirமிச்சிகன்ஒன்றுபட்டது-மாநிலங்களில்In the early years they laughed at him and even coined his wild experiment to plant European grape varietals in northern Michigan “O’Keefe’s Folly” for its apparent foolhardiness, but Chateau Grand Traverse founder and Michigan wine maverick Ed O’Keefe Jr. proved them all wrong.
“He was a pioneer and a leader and I can’t imagine anyone not saying that about him,” said Master Sommelier Madeline Triffon. “His spirit was irrepressible.”
O’Keefe may not have moved mountains but came close in 1974, when, under the guidance of renowned German viticulturist Helmutt Becker, he transferred a million cubic yards of soil and 900 tons of humus to create a southwest slope on a former cherry orchard on Michigan s Old Mission Peninsula, planting 45 acres of riesling, chardonnay and merlot grapes in an area where no one else believed they could grow.
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