1974 Angelica Wine from
Heitz Cellar
"Truly an ambrosial drink fit for the gods"
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From Heitz Wine Cellars Newsletter Dated: 09/01/1991
Release of 1974 Angelica dessert wine.
Undoubtedly the best Angelica Heitz Cellars has ever offered.
It is a luscious sweet dessert wine made from the red mission grape variety.
The wine was then aged and mellowed seventeen years in oak before we bottled
it this spring in an attractive elongated 750ml bottle with a special designed
label.
Label description:
This 1974 vintage year Angelica dessert wine is made Mission grape variety,
the same grape the early California missionaries used to make the highly respected
original Angelica. Made in the tradition of its California heritage, we believe
this is undoubtedly the best Angelica Heitz Cellars has ever offered.
A luscious dessert wine, sweet on the palate, complexed by time and mellowed by oak wood aging.
After 17 years of slowly aging in a cool stone cellar and then bottled in 1991, this flavorful amber colored wine is ready to enjoy.
May we offer you our cellar treasure Angelica, truly an ambrosial drink,
fit for the gods.
Copy of the Newsletter
from 1991.
Provided by: Heitz Cellar
Angelica wine is an historic sweet fortified wine usually from California
made typically from the Mission grape. It is often served as a dessert wine.
Some varieties consist of the unfermented grape juice fortified with brandy
or clear spirit immediately after pressing.
Others are made like port, where the only partially fermented wine, still
retaining a large amount of sugar, is infused with brandy.
The relatively high alcohol of the brandy arrests the fermentation, leaving
a fortified wine high in alcohol and high in residual sugar (usually about
10 to 15%). It is typically made from 50% Mission wine and 50% Mission brandy.
Angelica dates to the Mission period in California and it's name is thought
to be taken from the city of Los Angeles.
It was produced by the Franciscan missionaries and is one of the first wines
made in the state.
Article from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_wine
October 15, 2008
Could not resist...
This rare and hard to find 29 years old Angelica Wine is now even better then
when first bottled.
I could give a long description of this incredible taste but I think they
put it better on the bottle label description.
"Truly an ambrosial drink fit for the gods"
This wine is a 20+
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