Winemaker Notes:
A wonderfully tropical wine with nuances of fresh crushed pineapple,
mandarin orange, banana and papaya. With
these tropical layers is an aromatic honeysuckle and wildflower layer. The wine is bright and has a clean minerality
that pairs well with the lemon and creamy pineapple feel. The wine has a long lingering tropical finish
that will pair amazingly with Chesapeake Bay Oysters!
Vintage:
2018 started out with very cold temperatures in January and
continued throughout most of the winter.
The cold weather was followed by an unusually wet spring. Some rains coming when the vines were beginning
to flower, an important process in the grape development and a time when heavy
rains are not wanted. The summer was consistently
hot and humid with the humidity never seeming to abate. The fall started out with drier conditions allowing
for some good grape development and then towards the mid and later part of the
fall the rains returned. Overall a hot,
humid and wet vintage that Mother Nature throws at us occasionally to test the
fortitude of the growers and winemakers.
Blend
100% Petit Manseng
Harvest
The Bent Mountain Grapes were harvested on 06 September 2018
at 23.7 brix, 3.44 pH and .900g/L TA. The
Amherst grapes were harvested on 07 September 2018 at 24.3 brix, 3.61 pH and .618g/L
TA.
Vineyard Source:
Bent Mountain, VA – 69%
Amherst, VA – 31%
Fermentation
The Bent Mtn grapes were fermented with Elixir Yeast for 20
days. The Amherst grapes were fermented
with Rhone 4600 yeast for 14 days. All
fermentations were in stainless steel under chilled conditions.
Aging
The wine was aged in stainless steel tanks.
Bottling Date
24 April 2019 – 479 cases
Release Date
July 2019
Technical
Information
14.1% Alc
3.56 pH
0.888g/L TA
0.10% RS (dry)
