Cuvee Tropical
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai curries, grilled fish tacos, fresh fruit and goat cheese salads
✨ Technical Specifications
Channing Daughters Cuv ee Tropical is a vibrant, aromatic white blend that showcases the innovative spirit of Long Island's South Fork. Winemaker Christopher Tracy artfully crafts this cuv ee to emphasize exotic, tropical fruit characters, drawing on the estate's diverse plantings. By blending aromatic varieties like Gew urztraminer, Muscat, and Sauvignon Blanc with a backbone of Chardonnay, the winery coaxes out lush notes of mango, pineapple, and citrus. The grapes are grown in the unique Bridgehampton loam soils, under the cooling influence of the Atlantic Ocean and Peconic Bay. Fermented cool in stainless steel tanks to preserve its intense primary aromatics and crisp acidity, this wine represents a playful yet sophisticated expression of maritime New York terroir.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded by Walter Channing with initial vineyard plantings dating back to 1982 in Bridgehampton on Long Island's South Fork, Channing Daughters Winery stands as one of New York's most inventive and boundary-pushing artisanal producers. Guided by partner and winemaker Christopher Tracy alongside partner Larry Perrine, the estate champions low-intervention, sustainable viticulture across its distinctive maritime terroir. The winery is celebrated for its remarkably diverse and adventurous portfolio encompassing more than two dozen grape varieties, ranging from skin-contact orange wines like Meditazione and complex field blends like Mosaico to expressive single-vineyard expressions such as L'Enfant Sauvage Chardonnay and Scuttlehole Chardonnay. Through experimental fermentations, pet-nats, and traditional method sparklers, Channing Daughters continues to showcase the dynamic potential and saline elegance of East End winemaking.