Nightingale
⏳ Drikkevindue
2024 - 2036
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Classic blue cheeses like Roquefort, rich savory pâtés or foie gras, and fruit-based desserts such as apricot tarts or crème brûlée.
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
Beringer's 'Nightingale' is one of California's most legendary sweet dessert wines, born from the visionary work of winemaker Myron Nightingale and his wife, Alice. In the mid-20th century, the couple pioneered a revolutionary, patented technique to induce Botrytis cinerea (noble rot) on harvested Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes in a controlled winery environment, mimicking the rare natural conditions of Bordeaux's Sauternes region. By dusting grapes with botrytis spores in custom-designed rooms, they created a luscious, honeyed nectar. Aged in French oak barrels, this golden wine offers complex layers of dried apricot, honey, toasted nuts, and sweet spice, standing as a monument to Napa Valley's spirit of scientific innovation and artistic winemaking.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Beringer Vineyards blev grundlagt i 1876 af brødrene Jacob og Frederick Beringer og er i dag Californiens ældste kontinuerligt fungerende vinhus, beliggende i hjertet af St. Helena i Napa Valley. Som pionerer inden for tidlig vinproduktion i Napa udhuggede Beringer-brødrene kalkstensgrotter med håndkraft og etablerede kældre baseret på tyngdekraftsprincippet for at skabe raffinerede og lagringsværdige vine. I dag ejes det historiske vinhus af Treasury Wine Estates og viderefører en kompromisløs dedikation til terroirdrevet vindyrkning på tværs af de bedste parceller i Napa Valley og Knights Valley. Beringer nyder international anerkendelse for sine ikoniske Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon og Chardonnay, suppleret af komplekse enkeltmarksudgaver samt botrytiserede dessertvine som Nightingale.