2023 Dry Riesling

Mint • Key Lime • Driving

Best enjoyed at 42°-51°f
Suggested drink window: drink now - 2027 – 2032

The 2023 Dry Riesling is comprised of fruit from Wagner Vineyards, our neighbors just slightly to the north that share a boundary creek line to our Estate Caywood Vineyard. This vineyard site sits on the distinctive Lansing series and is a gravelly silt loam. The Lansing Series consists of very deep and very well drained soils formed in glacial till.

Winemaking

• 100% Riesling

• Vineyard locations: East side of Seneca Lake

• Soil: Lansing gravelly silt loam

• Aged 10 months in stainless steel on lees

• Unfined & sterile filtered

• Vegan

• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing

• Brix: 20.0° • pH: 3.30 • TA: 7.6 g/L • RS: 0.1% • ABV: 11.0% • Bottled: 6/24/2024

• Cases Produced: 183

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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!