2016 Riesling 'Nostalgie'

An exceptionally warm and dry summer in the Finger Lakes gave us nearly perfectly golden fruit with almost no botrytis. Cool fall temperatures yielded fruit with a wonderful combination of ripeness and bracing acidity. An excellent vintage worthy of long-term aging.

Grapes were hand-harvested on October 8th, 2016 and whole-cluster pressed. Juice was left to ferment naturally at cellar temperature. Alcoholic fermentation and malo-lactic conversion were completed by April 2017 and the wine was aged on gross lees for five months prior to bottling. 

Alc. 12.7%, pH: 3.06, TA: 7.5 g/L, RS: 1.0 g/L

Tasting Notes

93 points - - Classic and high-acid, from spontaneous fermentation with some lees aging. Light yellow, presenting a beautiful nose of fresh flowers and spring herbs. The herbal notes carry onto the palate, which is racy, steely and edgy, offering lovely notes of underripe stone fruit and great structure and heft. Bone-dry with the austere finish of a world-class Riesling.

-- Jason Wilson, Vinous, Dec 2019