Williamson Wines - Arouse Mélange

Arouse is a blended wine (Mélange ) designed to push the flavors of Bordeaux to the limit with a distinctly different arousing twist with each vintage.

An elegant Bordeaux-style wine comprising fruit from the Napa mountain slopes of Atlas Peak and Pritchard Hill and the Sonoma valleys of Chalk Hill and Dry Creek bringing together a complexity of flavors showing an immediate freshness, charm and elegance on the palate.

The goal with Arouse is to use the Bordeaux-style wines in a blend that is not traditionally Bordeaux and come up with a unique American blend that is actually flavorful, delicious and stimulates the taste of many foods unique to America.

Some wine lovers look for vintage consistency. They want the same flavor characteristics from a particular wine each year.

We easily deliver that consistency with our Bordeaux blends maintaining the same flavor components and only allowing the terroir effect of that particular year to show.

Still others continually ask "what's new?"

Wines are traditionally developed in concert with the foods of a particular area. Bordeaux (blended) wines are sonorous with the historical foods of Bordeaux which are different to everyday American cuisine.

This difference stimulated Bill to develop an new wine, blended from the traditional five Bordeaux varieties but in totally different blend configurations each year to invigorate the taste buds for American cuisine and to offer something new for each vintage produced.

Arouse ~ to stimulate; to invigorate; to rouse into action.

Mélange ~ Mélange is a French term for a mixture, (from mêler, "to mix"), used especially when the result is attractive or exciting. Applied to American Bordeaux style wines as we do it becomes synonymous with Meritage.