Nose
The resulting wine is rich with ripe peach, melon, orange and honeysuckle aromas.
Palate
With a juicy intensity of peach flavor carrying throughout.
Growing Conditions
The 2024 growing season commenced about 10 days ahead of schedule. But while a late freeze marred yields in 2023, we saw favorable conditions in late spring this time around, giving us a wide open window to ripen all varieties to peak flavor development.
Harvest
Continued nice weather brought harvest to our hands a full two weeks earlier than typical for early-ripening varieties, while later-ripening ones still received extended hangtime and were picked more than 60 days after our first batch of grapes came off the vine. All told, this vintage provided both quality and quantity -- a much-welcomed sight following the frost of 2023 and the drought of 2022.
Bottling
Bottled August 4, 2024
Winemaking
The Caywood West vineyard is situated south of the winery grounds and comprises 2 clones of Riesling: #90 and # 198. The clones are separately harvested and fermented in stainless steel prior to final blending.
Aging
This si the first single vineyards bottling produced from out Caywood West Vineyard, and we were able to let the grapes hang into late October before harvesting
