The 2020 Francis Coppola Reserve Viognier offers a more restrained and elegant style of this aromatic grape. The bouquet shows lovely ripe peach and apricot and ripe pear fruits with hints of apple blossom, honeysuckle and butter. Round and full on the palate, it combines the luscious peach and apricot fruits with a range of floral and exotic spice elements. It is a delicious rendition of Viognier that shows a lively and lifted style rather unusual among USA renditions of this grape.
Francis Coppola, Russian River Valley (Sonoma County, California) Viognier 2020
By Wayne Belding