Bramble Pie • Black Tea • Grippy
Best enjoyed at 55° - 60°F
Suggested drink window: now – 2029 - 2038
This wine is sourced from 75% estate fruit - Damiani, Davis, and Caywood Vineyards and the remaining 25% from our longtime grower partner, Standing Stone Farms. Following a brutal winter in 2021-2022 and a late spring frost in 2023, the 2023 season saw an interesting anomaly where, come the first week of October, all fruit that remained on the vine stopped accumulating sugars for the remainder of the season. Across the Finger Lakes, it is believed this was a stress response to two very hard weather events. Looking at the forecast and seeing clear and sunny days ahead, we decided to let the fruit hang for several more weeks, knowing we weren’t going to gain any sugar ripeness, but we certainly gained phenolic ripeness by letting the sunshine continue to develop tannin and phenolics. The resulting wine has moderate alcohol and a deep and concentrated focus.
Winemaking
• 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
• Vineyard locations: East side of Seneca Lake
• Soils: Howard and Valois gravelly silt loam
• Hand harvested October 25th - 27th
• Indigenous yeast fermentation
• Unfined & sterile filtered
• Vegan
• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing
• Brix: 20.5°-22.0° │ pH: 3.63 │ TA: 7.4 g/L │ MA: 0.41g/L │ RS: 0.08 │ ABV: 12.2 │ Bottled: 2/15/2025
• Cases Produced: 200
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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!
