Husch Estates

Just across the road from Roederer, Husch Estates is a pretty property where they produce about 40,000 cases of wine every year from 100% estate fruit. The tasting room is tiny but quaint, a former farm building converted to a new use. Husch is in the midst of building a new facility, with wheelchair-accessible washrooms.

Husch Estates Sauvignon Blanc 2007
A hint of green pepper and asparagus is matched with some slightly sweet citrus. The mouthfeel is crisp, with green apple and sweet spice.

Husch Estates Special Reserve Chardonnay 2006
The very definition of a California Chard: peach, vanilla and toast. It's dry, with a toasty fruit finish.

Husch Estates Gewurztraminer 2006
With good honey, peach and floral aromas, this is complex in the mouth: peach and pear, white pepper and honey. The finish, very floral, is just medium-length.

Husch Estates Pinot Noir 2006
Fermented for 10 months in new French oak, it has an alcohol, black cherry nose. The flavours are of slightly sour cherry and leather, with a short cherry finish.

Husch Estates "Knoll" Pinot Noir 2006

The Knoll is a small estate vineyard planted in 1968, and this wine is made exclusively from the fruit that grows there. 50% of the wine is fermented in new French oak.It has surprising black cherry and cola aromas, and the flavours of of big fruit, too. With a long, slightly tart cherry finish and good, rounded tannins, it's a lovely.

Husch Estates Cabernet Sauvignon "Reserve" 2004
Blackberries, leather and cigar box, the aromas are complex and perfect. But the taste is lightly tart, with full, well-rounded tannins and menthol on the finish.

Husch Estates Chenin Blanc 2007
A gentle dessert wine, it smells and tastes of sweet peaches, apples and honey.

Husch Estates Muscat Canelli 2007
Sweet ripe tropical fruit, especially pineapple, give this dessert wine a nice complexity.

Husch Estates Late Harvest Gewurztraminer 2007
With 12% residual sugar, it's very sweet, with good floral, pear and peach notes.