Jennifer Waits and Brian Mast attended their first Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival more than 20 years ago. They both fell in love with the wines and community, sparking an interest in making wine themselves. Fast forward to Waits-Mast Family Cellars, a San Francisco winery sourcing solely from Mendocino County. Winemaker Shalini Sekhar began working […]
This zippy, tart white wine is actually a red Pinot Noir in disguise
This zippy, tart white wine is actually a red Pinot Noir in disguise
Critic Esther Mobley recommends an unconventional white, which its winemaker describes as tasting like the lemon-cherry combo flavor of Italian Ice
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The Waits-Mast Pinot Noir Blanc, from Anderson Valley.Esther Mobley / The Chronicle
The wine is virtually colorless if you needed to assign it a hue, you might call it a pale flax. It smells like lemon juice, juniper berries and faintly of sea salt. The acidity is ripping, waking up your taste buds as it jolts across the sides of your tongue.