About This Product
Tasting Notes:
The nose is a fragrant blend citrus and white flowers like lemon, lime and narcissus. Flavors of pear, honey and lime predominate in a medium bodied wine with a great balance of acidity and flavor and a long finish. You’ll want to have another glass.
$19.50 / Bottle
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Vineyard Notes:
Winter’s Hill has 1 1/2 acres of a white clone of Pinot Gris planted in 1999. The vines are planted at 900 vines to the acre, running east to west in Block 8 to accommodate the steep western slope. Our elevation of 600 ft. allows our fruit to ripen slowly achieving flavor maturity while retaining good acidity. The white Pinot Gris clones was discovered on two plants in our vineyard and later propagated. The vines are grafted onto phylloxera-resistant, Riparia Gloire rootstock and trained into a double cane trellising system. Bud break in 2006 was close to normal, the first week of April. Our spring weather was cool and wet, bringing a bloom that commenced the first week of June and throughout the month. Summer was dry and hot in the wine growing regions of the state, bringing a healthy and abundant fruit set, so we braced for an early harvest, which started early September instead of October like most years. Like a normal season we had to thin our fruit to reach our quality targets. During those two months the weather cooled and showered the region occasionally. Some welcome rain refreshed the plants and flavors were free to develop slowly and elegantly before the sugar levels got too high.
Production Notes:
The wine is juice fermented in stainless steel tank after direct pressing of the grapes. It was allowed to sit on the lees until bottling in January 2007.
Production:
332 cases produced (375ml bottles)
Harvest Date: Oct 13
Residual Sugar: 10.1%
