2024 Bouquet

Candied Strawberry • Saline • Plush

Serve at 45°F
Suggested drink window: drink now

92 points, Gold Medal - 2025 NEW YORK WINE CLASSIC

We make two roses at Damiani, and the Bouquet is unique in that it is juice from the saignée process. Saignée is a winemaking technique to enhance red wines where juice is removed from a vessel about 24 hours after processing to change the juice to skins/seeds ratio to make red wines more concentrated. We do this process on almost all of our red wines, which yields a consistent supply of slightly pink juice, which we ferment separately in tanks throughout the season.

Winemaking

• 41% Pinot Noir, 31% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, 9% Lemberger, 8% Saperavi, 1% Pinot Meunier

• Vineyard location: East & west sides of Seneca Lake, west side of Cayuga Lake

• Soils: Howard & Valois gravelly loam & Lordstown channery silt loam

• Hand-harvested from August 27th - October 10th

• Saignée juice from different harvest dates fermented separately

• Unfined & sterile filtered

• Vegan

• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing

• Brix: 21.0°-22.0° │ pH: 3.45 │ TA: 6.6 g/L │ MA 1.9 g/L │ RS: 0.19 │ ABV: 12.5 │ Bottled: 2/19/2025

 

2024 Vintage Notes

The 2024 season was a strong year for us at Damiani and in the Finger Lakes, and with thoughtful viticulture and a gentle hand in the cellar, the wines produced were intentional, energetic, and concentrated.