Mudd West Vineyard Petit Verdot
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3–10 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled ribeye steak, aged cheddar cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Channing Daughters' Mudd West Vineyard Petit Verdot is a compelling testament to the potential of Long Island's maritime terroir. Sourced from the historic Mudd West Vineyard on the North Fork—originally planted and managed by the pioneering Mudd family, who helped shape the viticultural landscape of the region—this wine highlights Petit Verdot not merely as a blending agent, but as a solo star. In the temperate, ocean-influenced climate of Long Island, the late-ripening Petit Verdot grape finds the extended hang-time it needs to develop intense color, structural tannins, and vibrant acidity. The winemaking team employs traditional, low-intervention techniques, including wild fermentations and careful barrel aging, to craft a red wine of remarkable depth, showing dark bramble fruit, violet aromatics, and a distinct mineral undercurrent reflective of the local glacial soils.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Petit Verdot