2023 Cabernet Sauvignon
Saddle Leather • Dried Jalapeño • Vivid
Best enjoyed at 55° - 60°f
Suggested drink window: now – 2028 - 2035
The 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon comes from our consistently favorite sites for cabernet sauvignon: our estate Davis and Caywood Vineyards, as well as our longtime grower partner Standing Stone Vineyards. These sites have two distinctive soil types, Honeoye silt loam and Valois gravelly loam. The Honeoye series consists of very deep soils formed in loamy till that are consistent with the steep soils on till plains, ridgelines, and drumlins in the area. The Valois gravelly loam soils are also very deep, very well drained soils formed of shale, siltstone, and sandstone.
Winemaking
• 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
• Vineyard locations: East side of Seneca Lake
• Soils: Valois gravelly loam and Honeoye silt loam
• Hand harvested October 27th
• Indigenous yeast fermentation
• Unfined & unfiltered
• Vegan
• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing
• Brix: 20.5°-22.0° • pH: 3.67 • TA: 7.2 g/L • RS: 0.1% • ABV: 12.5% • Bottled: 8/12/2024
• Cases Produced: 288
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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!
