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2015 PINOT NOIR
Seneca Lake Vineyard

Dry Red Table Wine
Cases produced: 103
Alcohol: 12.7%
Total sulfite addition: 30 ppm
Grape: Pinot Noir
Soil: Deeper loam over shale and limestone
Harvest: September 19, 2015
Bottled: October 3, 2016

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 10 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 2016. In October the wine was racked off its lees and gravity bottled by hand without fining or filtration.

TASTING NOTE: 2015 Eminence Road - Pinot Noir - Seneca Lake Vineyard - Ripe cherry, dust, tar and barrel on the nose. In the mouth the wine is full and quite dry with a firm tannic grip that persists into a stoney finish marked by cherry and clove. A ripe, sunny pinot, pair with beef.

SENECA LAKE VINEYARD: In and around Lodi, New York on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, grower Mark Wagner maintains nearly seventy acres of vines contained in six separate plots with soils mostly composed of deeper loam over shale and limestone. Green mulching and cover crops are used to manage weeds and vines are meticulously cared for with an eye towards sustainability. These vineyards produce classic Finger Lakes wines with wonderful balance and clarity.