2023 Pinot Gris

Geranium • Lemon Peel • Angular

Best served at  42° - 51°f’
Suggested drink window:  drink now – 2025 - 2026

The 2023 Pinot Gris is from two vineyards, our estate Valois Vineyard and neighbor to the north, Caywood Vineyards. Both sites sit about 3 miles from one another but have very distinctive soil types but both being very deep and well drained. The pinot gris from our estate Valois Vineyard sits predominately on the Howard series with a small amount of the Valois series to the southern part of the block. The Caywood Vineyards pinot gris is on the Honeoye series and is comprised of silt loam with gravel and cobbled rock fragments formed from glacial plains and ridgelines.

Winemaking

• 100% Pinot Gris

• Vineyard locations: East side of Seneca Lake

• Soil: Lansing and Howard gravelly silt loam and limestone

• Hand harvested from September 20-21st

• Unfined & sterile filtered

• Vegan

• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing

• Brix: 19.0°- 20.0° • pH: 3.32 • TA: 7.5 g/L • RS: 0.1% • ABV: 11.5% • Bottled: 2/14/2024       

• Cases Produced: 300

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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!