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Glen Manor Morales Rosé 2020
Origin: Virginia
Retail: $19.95 | Sale: $17.95
Named for José Morales and his family, who alongside the White family have worked at Glen Manor's vineyard since its establishment. This rosé is made by blending grapes grown specifically for it, along with juice bled off from the reds during the beginning of the maceration period. While skin contact time and varietal blend change from year to year, it is always a blend of the red grapes grown on the estate. The result is a light, dry rosé ideal for charcuterie and summer meals and is intended to be enjoyed with the freshness of warm seasons.
45% Cabernet Franc | 22% Merlot | 22% Petit Verdot | 11% Nebbiolo
Glen Manor Petit Manseng 2017
Origin: Virginia
Retail: $34.95 | Sale: $31.45
Petite Manseng is Jeff White's smallest planting - he only grows about 1.5 acres. This Petit Manseng is an off-dry white that starts off with candied fruit notes of dried citrus, pineapple, and other tropical fruits. It's a full-bodied white that is balanced with lovely acidity on the finish. It's light, ethereal, and refreshing, the wine is a spectacular choice for summer.
100% Petit Manseng
Glen Manor St. Ruth 2015
Origin: Virginia
Retail: $43.95 | Sale: $39.55
St. Ruth is the more delicate, curvaceous partner to the Hodder Hill. A red blend that changes with the season, the wine carries itself with patience, allowing its structure, character, and nuance to blossom later in the glass or after cellaring. A nod to those that have come before us, St. Ruth is named for Stephen Clifton Lawson and his wife, Annie Susan Beaty, who purchased the land in 1901 and was the first of their family to farm and live in the glen; and for their only child, Ruth Ardelia Lawson.
72% Merlot | 14% Cabernet Franc | 14% Petit Verdot
Glen Manor Hodder Hill 2014
Origin: Virginia
Retail: $49.95 | Sale: $44.95
Hodder Hill is a structured red blend (usually Cabernet Sauvignon dominant), focused on the terroir of the mountain farm. The blend of varieties and nuances of flavor change with every season, just as nature gives us different fruit every season, and we allow the best of this bounty to frame the wine. In the same way that this wine showcases the structure that our vineyards produce, its name showcases the structure of their family; it is named for Raymond Hodder Rudacille, the second generation of the family to farm and live on the land.
69% Cabernet Sauvignon | 16% Merlot | 15% Petit Verdot
Glen Manor Raepheus Late Harvest Petit Manseng 2016
Origin: Virginia
Retail: $36.95 | Sale: $33.25
This dessert wine showcases the beauty of a late harvest Petit Manseng. Inspired by the sweet wines of Jurançon, they adapt to the Virginia climate and steep mountain elevation to produce a wine of concentration and finesse. Named for Anna Rae and her husband Alpheus, the third generation of the family to farm the land. It is their youngest son, Jeff, who started and manages the vineyards.
100% Petit Manseng