Artesia Sommelier Deikun
TASTING NOTES: “Artesa’s 2022 Los Carneros Chardonnay displays great fruit freshness, intensity, and elegance. Aromatic notes of lemon-citrus and white blossom, while enhancing the minerality and bright, vibrant fruit flavors of citrus and stone fruit in the wine. Partial barrel and malolactic fermentation, combined with lees stirring, produces a Chardonnay with added layers of complexity, focused and with bright acidity, imparting hints of Meyer lemon, nectarine, and lemongrass.” (AbV 13.1%, pH 3.32, TA 6 g/L)
VARIETALS: 100% Chardonnay
BARRELS: “…30% of the juice was placed in neutral French oak barrels and 70% in stainless steel tanks, where they underwent alcoholic fermentation, both with selected and native yeasts. After primary fermentation, about 40% of the lots went through malolactic fermentation. The wine was aged on its lees for 9 months…”
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THAT REMINDS ME OF: Artesia Som Deikun.
1979’s Mobile Suit Gundam centers around the conflict between the Earth-based Federation and the space-based Principality of Zeon, the latter initiating the conflict after the fascist Zabi family replaces its original peaceful founder Zeon Zum Deikun. Following his death, Deikun’s children Casval Rem Deikun and Artesia Som Deikun were taken for their safety by a man named Don Teabolo Mass and given the names Edward and Sayla Mass respectively. Edward/Casval would then change names yet again to Char Aznable by assuming the identity of a friend who died in his place.
The siblings would be separated for many years, as Char becomes a high-ranking Zeon military pilot and Sayla eventually becomes the communications officer on the Federation assault carrier known as White Base. They would reunite but essentially on opposite sides of the conflict.
