The Saint

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An opulent, generous and perfectly offbeat Viognier, a wine like waking up from the dreamiest slumber to a piece of very, very good news. This wine is charismatic and compelling fr om the jump, with the kind of nose you could spend the rest of your life contemplating: almondine and intoxicatingly perfumed, but with a savoury, almost sherry-esque umami backbone. The palate is a baroque symphony of sweet miso, dried apricot, condensed milk and cognac-macerated pear. This is a wine that could pair with just about anything– duck a l’orange, Moroccan chicken tagine, and Manchego cheese are merely a few options that come to mind, but we urge you to think outside the box– this is a challenging, complex wine that is absolutely up to the task. GOOD FOR — Sipping digestif-style while reading classics in the library of an extravagant château Time-travelling to turn-of-the-century Vienna or Prague for an affair with a tortured poet Pairing with one of Beethoven’s odd-numbered symphonies An epic autumn sunset over the Pacific ocean Show more