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2014 PINOT NOIR
Elizabeth's Vineyard

Dry Red Table Wine
Cases produced: 104
Alcohol: 12.1%
Total sulfite addition: 30 ppm
Grape: Pinot noir
Soil: Thin loam over shale
Harvest: September 30, 2014
Bottled: October 30, 2015

ELEVAGE: Hand picked grapes were foot crushed, whole-cluster, stems and all, and put into one-ton bins to ferment. The grapes received once daily punchdowns for 11 days before being bucketed into the half-ton bladder press. Settled juice was pumped into old French oak barrels to finish fermentation which continued into June of 2015. In October the wine was racked off its lees and gravity bottled by hand without fining or filtration.

TASTING NOTE: 2014 Eminence Road - Pinot Noir - Elizabeth's Vineyard - A bit of reduction on the nose. Earthy aromas with deep cherry fruit and spice aromas. Firm in the mouth with a wash of dark cherry fruit backed by fine tannin and a bright, shale infused finish. Drink cool with a grilled burger, bolognese dish or vegetable tartin.

ELIZABETH'S VINEYARD: Located in Hector, New York on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, this twenty-seven acre vineyard is composed of shallow loam soil over shale on a slope leading to some of the lake's deepest waters. Among the pinot noir, cabernet franc and riesling, grower John Leidenfrost also maintains blocks of spur pruned cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay over a quarter century old. This vineyard's privileged exposure and thin, shale laden soil produces wine of great depth and backbone.



Tilled up "soil" during some new planting at Elizabeth's Vineyard.


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