Michael Shaps Petit Manseng

Pnp, consumed over three hours. Appearance: Clear, medium-deep gold. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with developing aromas of apple pie, grapefruit, marmalade, and lemon zest. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium body, medium+ intensity, 14.4% abv is masked very well with developing flavors of grilled pineapple, melon, and red apple with a medium+ finish. Balance: Very Good-Excellent Length: Excellent Intensity: Excellent Complexity: Excellent Purchased 7 bottles of this back in 2017 after visiting the winery during a break in a business trip …

Delicious. Slightly sweet. Perfect petit manseng

Consumed over 2 days (vacuvined and refrigerated), note from day 2. Appearance: Clear, medium lemon. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity, aromas of canned pears, apple, butterscotch, and white flowers - acacia, with hints of ginger. Palate: Dry, medium+ acid, medium body, 14.3% abv, medium+ intensity with flavors of pears, red apple, and grapefruit with steel notes and a medium finish. Overall a very good wine with excellent balance and intensity and good complexity and length. Still feels quite youthful as it …

My previous note from 3/30/20 applies to this bottle - surprisingly delicious wine from Virginia.

Pop and pour, consumed over 3 hours. Nose: Medium-plus intensity, florals - white flowers, honeydew, lemon, and vanilla notes. Palate: Medium bodied, slightly creamy mouth-feel, tart lemon and ripe melon attack, good balance, canned pear notes appear in the back-end. Finish: Lengthy 45-60 seconds dominated by ripe melon, tart lemon, and fresh canned pears. This Shaps Petite Manseng is uniquely tasty, I highly recommend it if your looking for an alternative, but delicious, white.

Note is from memory since I drank this at least 2 or 3 months ago, but I recall this as having excellent concentration and balance, with good dried pineapple, lovely acidity and weight, and handling its alcohol very well. The best of the Virginia Petit Mansengs I have tried.

Consumed over 2 days (vacuvined), note from day 2. Nose: Medium-plus expressiveness, meyer lemon, pear, green apple, polished steel, almonds and subtle hints of licorice - complex and interesting. Palate: Medium-bodied, pear, honeydew melon and apple attack, slightly creamy mouth-feel, great balance - acid driven mid-palate lift melds with perfectly ripe pear, melon and green apple up-front flavors, minerals appear in the back-end adding to the flavor party and lingering through a 45-60 second finish. This is unlike any white …

Extremely intriguing. Like a dry Sauternes meets a Carneros Chardonnay. Tangy concentrated pineapple and tropical flavors with nice sweetness balanced by incredible acidity resulting in a clean finish that leaves your mouth watering and wanting more. Relatively high alcohol (14.3) gives this wine a silky body. Elegant and refined this wine was perfect with roasted butternut squash soup followed by roasted chicken with herbs. One of the most interesting wines I’ve had in some time.

Sweet pear and apple on entry. Hint of creamy citrus, smooth mouth-feel, viscous without sweetness. Dry but not bitter. Finish is creamy & very long. Goes well with crab cakes; even holds up with some spicy food.

I enjoyed this wine... an unusual varietal. Medium yellow, with a nose of plums and raspberry, waxy tones, hints of tropical fruit. Dry with ripe fruit and just hint of bitterness that works quite well here, good acidity, has a nicely structured palate, long finish. I would be happy to have this in my cellar.

Floral but rich, oaked just correct amount. Sliky finish, great at end of a holiday weekend!!!

Unusual for a Petit Manseng this wine is not as sweet due to oaking (French Oak). I find it very refreshing and somewhat unusual with a clean and moderately dry finish.

Purchased at the winery in October, 2016, popped and poured, consumed over 3 hours. Nose: Medium-plus expressiveness - very dynamic and ever changing showing green apple, pear, fresh cut grass, florals - gardenias, with hints of vanilla and licorice. Palate: Medium-full bodied, superb balance - sweet pear and green apple attack with a big acidic mid-palate kick, the fruit has great persistence balancing the big acid and persisting through the back-end. The finish is lengthy dominated by green apple, pear, …