Furthermore Russian River Valley Chardonnay

2 bottles for $54.99 $27.50/bottle + $4/bottle shipping Case of 12 for $219.99 $18.33/bottle + $1/bottle shipping Tasting notes & discussion 4

Typically $55/bottle from Furthermore Wines
Vintage 2022 from the Russian River Valley
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About Furthermore Wines: “All these years later it is still our main mission, producing Pinot Noir from vineyards up and down the California Coast as far south as the Santa Rita Hills in Santa Barbara County and as far north as the Yorkville Highlands in Mendocino county, including wines from our estate vineyards located in the Sonoma Coast and Russian River Valley AVAs. Although we’ve grown gradually over the years and now make more than just Pinot Noir, we are still a relatively small operation making about 4,000 cases of hand crafted wines annually.”

Pic-ahn or Pee-can

TASTING NOTES: “This wine features aromas of pineapple, apple, maple, fig, toasted pecan, oak, lemon zest, butterscotch, cinnamon, fresh hay and spearmint. It has a well balanced acidity with a plush mouthfeel, heavy weight with a lingering peach/dried apricot finish.” (AbV 12.5%)

VARIETALS: Chardonnay.

BARRELS: Seems to be some oak.

PAIRS WITH: N/A

THAT REMINDS ME OF: The age-old dichotomy of “pic-ahn” versus “pee-can.”

People are very opinionated about it. Well, at least the people who pronounce it “pic-ahn” or however you choose to transcribe that. Don’t think I’ve heard anyone get up in a tizzy about not pronouncing it “pee-can,” but maybe they’re out there.

Anyway, Dr. Bert Vaux of Cambridge has had a long-running survey about different pronunciations and their root dialects that plots its participants on a map. It’s neat. Joshua Katz is the one who ended up turning them into heat maps, however, and put out the NY Times Dialect Quiz based on Vaux’s study. Behold, the map of pecan from one of these studies.

Seems like most of the US decided it ends in an “-ahn” (except the East Coast), but whether it’s “pee-” or “pick-” varies in the South and Midwest.

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