2023 Pinot Noir

Tart Cherry • Fresh Thyme • Soft

Best enjoyed at 53° - 60°f
Suggested drink window: now - 2027 - 2034

The 2023 Pinot Noir comes from three distinctive vineyards and is 69% estate grown. The majority of the blend is from the Davis Vineyard, which is split into two blocks separated by clonal types and soil type where the lower section is planted exclusively to 115 with Howard and Valois series soils and the upper section is a combination of 777, 667 & 115 with Valois gravelly silt loam soils. The other sites in this blend are estate Damiani and Valois Vineyards, with a mixture of Lordstown channery silt loam and Howard and Valois gravelly silt loam, and one of our grower partners, Shaw Vineyards, on the westside of Seneca Lake with moderately sloped Aurora-Angola silt loam soils.

Winemaking

• 100% Pinot Noir

• Vineyard locations: 69% East side of Seneca Lake and 31% West side of Seneca Lake

• Soils: Howard and Valois gravelly silt loam, Lordstown channery silt loam, Aurora-Angola silt loam

• Hand harvested from September 20-22nd

• Indigenous fermentation

• Unfined & sterile filtered   

• Vegan

• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing

• Brix: 20.0°- 21.5° • pH: 3.84 • TA: 6.6 g/L • RS: 0.1% • ABV: 11.5% • Bottled: 8/12/2024

• Cases Produced: 250

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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!