Black Currant • Clove • Balanced
Best enjoyed at 53° - 60°F
Suggested drink window: now - 2028 - 2035
The Damiani Vineyard is a truly unique site for us and the pinot noir from this site reflects its distinctiveness. Planted at just over one acre, this block is interplanted with a variety of different clones, a not-so-typical way of planting, which gives the final wine more nuance and individuality. The block sits on a steep 15% slope on Lordstown channery silt loam soils, which is a unique series formed in glacial till and material derived from sandstone and siltstone on bedrock-controlled landforms of glaciated dissected plateaus. This process of cryoturbation – also known as frost churning – sees the soil repeatedly freezing and thawing, mixing different materials from various horizons of the soil down to bedrock.
Winemaking
• 100% Pinot Noir
• Single Vineyard Series: Estate Damiani Vineyard
• Soils: Arnot & Lordstown channery silt loam
• Hand harvested September 13th
• 25% whole-cluster press
• 12-day indigenous yeast fermentation in 1-ton bins
• Aged 11 months sur lie in 400-liter neutral French oak puncheons with no bâtonnage
• Unfined & sterile filtered
• Vegan
• New York Sustainable Winegrowing
• Brix: 22.0° │ pH: 3.67 │ TA: 7.0 g/L │ RS: 0.08 │ ABV: 13.1 │ Bottled: 8/19/2025
• Cases Produced: 100
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Single Vineyard Series
The Finger Lakes contains a mosaic of soil types, slope, aspect to the sun, and microclimate giving each vineyard its own identity. While this variety adds multiple dimensions to our wines, it also presents an opportunity for us to further celebrate the land in our Single Vineyard Series. We bottle the special flavors produced from one particular vineyard in years when the fruit is of intense quality and such distinctive character that it demands to stand alone as a pure expression of terroir.
Damiani Vineyard
Located just west of Lou and Sarah’s lovely cedar-sided artistic home, the Damiani Vineyard rolls passionate and untamed down the slope toward Seneca Lake. We are blessed that all our vineyards are in the Finger Lakes’ “banana belt”. The banana belt microclimate, encapsulated on the southeast slopes of Seneca Lake, is vaunted for its protective embrace. Defined by a combination of the depth of the lake (regulating surrounding air temperatures year-round), the pitch of the slope (holding and circulating those regulated air currents, keeping the vines and fruit caressed) and the combination of glacial till and lots of shale and allow for fabulous drainage, while adding complex and deep, luscious terroir to the mix.
With its rugged terrain and minimalist intervention, this vineyard has grown into the landscape as opposed to growing upon it.
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.
