2012 Late Harvest Riesling
TASTING NOTES
Harvested in December the wine shows a beautiful late harvest bouquet of honey, peaches, dried fruit and melon. The acidity is bright and refreshing perfectly balanced with the fruit and residual sugar. A really nice wine to drink young but if given time it will gain more of the classic kerosene notes found in premium Rieslings around the world.
GRAPE SOURCE
100% WHITE BLUFFS VINEYARD
AWARDS
Silver Medal - Finger Lakes International Wine Competition 2014
Highly Recommended - Eco-Friendly Wine Challenge 2013
WINE MAKING NOTES
Harvest Date: December 3, 2012
Brix at harvest: 30.5
Yeast: X5
Fermentation: Grapes were harvested and processed through a mechanical destemmer for increased flavor extraction. The juice was settled with enzymes < 24 hours and then racked to stainless steel tanks where a cool fermentation was performed for fruit retention. Natural yeast-lees settling occurred for 30 days before the wine was filtered and bottled.
Titratable Acidity: 0.63 grams/100ml
pH: 3.25
Alcohol: 10.2% by vol.
Bottled: June 5, 2013