The 2011 Sultry Cellars "Crop" is a wine that I bought a few years ago and simply forgot about. Like all the wines I get from Arizona I purchased them at the actual winery's themselves and enjoyed a tasting of them before I bought them. This wine is no exception so I already knew going into this review that I did like the wine but did I did not remember any more about the wine than that. On the nose this wine started off really nice with a simply outstanding and totally expressive bouquet that wonderfully displayed it's many different tropical notes. If you love Apricot than your in luck here with the bouquet because there is heavy Apricot fruit on the nose followed by Peach. Both of these on the nose sent a message of sweetness to my mind. The other notes that followed up which was of Pear and a juicy Peach and Nectarine just reinforced that sweet, tropical sense. I didn't really mind that sense of sweetness however because that didn't mean necessarily mean it translated to actual sweetness in the the wine. The Bouquet in this wine is loaded with fruity notes galore and they are all displayed on the Palette as well. There is a noticeable hint of Alcohol here that appears to be used to open your Palette for what is to come next. As for the appearance of this wine in my glass the color was slightly muted and exhibited a medium Golden wine with some Yellowish hues to it. Here is a wine that is a blend of 50% Chardonnay & 50% Sauvignon Blanc and has the characteristics, Bouquet and Palette wise of both wines mixed into one. If you want to enjoy or talk about a White wine blend that explodes with an incredible Bouquet and coats your Palette incredibly than look no further. There is also an every so slight Palette note of acidity here but not overbearing or "in your face" so to speak. To me all the notes seem to come together at once very nicely. We are talking about notes of Apple, Apricot and Peach that makes for a wonderful introduction to this wine. Secondary or lesser notes of sugary Peach and Nectarine shine thru. Perhaps unusual for these varietals is the fact that I did not notice any Grapefruit at all. To me that is good because I actually don't believe that a Grapefruit note would have been too welcome here. This wine is wonderfully bright and semi-sweet on the Palette. A wine that screams "It's summer and I'm headed to the pool", loudly and clearly.
There is a hint of acidity as well here that brightens this wine in your mouth and puts a dryness on the back Palette and on the finish. On the sides of my Tongue I picked up a slight tartness that I also really liked. On the bottle of this wine it says "Oak aged over 18 months". It does
not state the type of Oak however and why doing the tasting I did not
sense any Oak at all in my mouth. This might be because the Oak was
either old or had a lower "toasting" level. Going back to the "sweetness" note for a minute and bringing this article to a close I will say that while as I stated I really didn't mind it much but I do have to say that I do think it was slightly over the top but not nearly enough to make this wine anywhere near undrinkable. I do believe however that it was enough however to deduct 2 points from the overall rating on The Desert Wine Guy rating scale. Overall I must say that I thoroughly enjoy the wine and with the exception of a small amount of over the top sweetness I think the wine displayed itself really nicely.
On The Desert Wine Guy rating scale I give this wine 89 points.
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