2023 Gewürztraminer
Orange Peel • Flinty • Viscous
Best enjoyed at 42° – 51°F
Suggested drink window: drink now - 2027 - 2029
The 2023 Gewurztraminer is from the Sunrise Hill Vineyard, located in Interlaken on western Cayuga Lake, is one of our longstanding grower partnerships which sits on Lima silt loam soils, a soil series unique in our cellar. The Lima series are moderately drained soils nearly level to moderately steep soils formed in glacial till that incorporates limestone and calcareous shale.
Winemaking
• 100% Gewürztraminer
• Vineyard location: West side of Cayuga Lake
• Soil: Honeoye & Lima silt loam
• Machine harvested October 3rd
• Unfined & sterile filtered
• Vegan
• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing
• Brix: 21.0° │ pH: 3.49 │ TA: 6.4 g/L │ RS: 0.2 │ ABV: 12.0 │ Bottling Date: 6/24/2024
• Cases Produced: 241
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Sunrise Hill Vineyard
Sunrise Hill Vineyard, a picturesque landscape located on the western side of Cayuga Lake, was founded by Bob and Kathy Ruiz and is now owned and operated by father-son partners Jay and Seth Birnbaum. Here, 12 acres of eastern-facing vinifera grapes are grown. The combination of soil, location and climate produce grapes that are packed with bright, fruit-focused flavors with just a hint of mineral and spice.
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!
