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2016 Reisling - Elizabeth's Vineyard

Dry White Table Wine
57 Cases Produced
Alcohol: 10.9%
Total sulfite addition: 30 ppm
Soil: Thin loam over shale
Grape: 100% Riesling
- Crushed and Destemmed
- Ambient Yeast
- Stainless Steel
- Unfined and Unfiltered
- Crown Cap

ELEVAGE: Hand picked grapes were foot crushed and destemed and allowed to macerate for 6 days, where fermentation by ambient yeast began immediately, before being bucketed into a half-ton bladder press. Settled juice was pumped into stainless steel to finish fermentation. In June the wine was racked off its lees and gravity bottled by hand without fining or filtration. The wine has a nearly imperceptible amount of residual sugar and also a little CO2. It is not sparkling despite the crown cap.

TASTING NOTE: Nose of ginger, blood orange and shale. Quite a bit of texture, orange peel and ginger, very plump in the mouth, with a lime zest finish.

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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