2023 Bouquet
Strawberries • Dried Herbs • Plush
Serve at 45°f
Suggested drink window: drink now
We make two roses at Damiani, and the Bouquet is unique in that it is juice from the saignée process. Saignée is a winemaking technique to enhance red wines where juice is removed from a vessel about 24 hours after processing to change the juice to skins/seeds ratio to make red wines more concentrated. We do this process on almost all of our red wines, which yields a consistent supply of slightly pink juice, which we ferment separately in tanks throughout the season.
Winemaking
• 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Lemberger, 22% Merlot, 19% Cabernet Franc
• Hand harvested from October 3-28th
• Saignéed juice from different harvest dates fermented separately
• Unfined & sterile filtered
• Vegan
• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing
• Brix: 21.0°- 22.0° • pH: 3.39 • TA: 7.5 g/L • RS: 0.2% • ABV: 12.5% • Bottled: 2/14/2024
• Cases Produced: 350
2023 Vintage Notes
As the harvest season approached, and all things pointed to 2023 being a lovely year. In the vineyards, our team worked tirelessly to ensure the cellar got to play with the best grapes possible come harvest time. Summer of 2023 was drastically different from the several previous seasons with a decent amount of rainfall, hot and humid days, but unusually cool nighttime temperatures. This means we were able to maintain a strict disease management protocol with timely shoot thinning and positioning, aggressive leaf thinning, and our hybrid organic/conventional spray program.
Many have asked about the frost event in late May and how we fared. In the days following the event, we were very nervous as we saw many small shoots go from green to black. After a few weeks, the vines started to push their secondary shoots and subsequent clusters, and we started to see life back in the hard-hit blocks. We feel very fortunate as we saw a fairly normal season as far as yields went, but we know some of our neighbors did not fare as well. These moments help reinforce the strength of the agricultural community and how we as consumers and neighbors can all help one another during challenging times by buying local, supporting small businesses, and always keeping a positive attitude!
