2002 Stony Hill White Riesling


Tasting Notes: This is the driest White Riesling we have made in thirty years, with a residual sugar of 0.6 percent. With palest straw color, it offers a distinctive apricot aroma with verdant and slightly earthy notes. The flavors are lovely, like the ripest part of a honeydew melon. The wine explodes in your mouth, pushed by its good acid structure, and at the same time it is soft yet not sweet, ending with a warm, lingering finish. How to serve Stony Hill White Riesling? Any time, anywhere, and it's great by itself!

Farming:
dry-farmed
Age of vines:
5 to 55 years
Appellation:
Napa Valley
Varietal:
100% White Reisling
Grapes:
Grown, produced and bottled at Stony Hill Vineyard
Harvest date:
9/20/02 - 9/23/02
Fermentation time:
Typically, sixty percent of the wine is fermented down to 1 to 1-1/2 percent residual sugar in stainless steel in 10 to 30 days. The other forty percent of the wine is fermented dry in aged, 172 gallon puncheons from Stuttgart, Germany, at which time the two lots are blended.
Fermentation temperature:
50 degrees
Aging time:
6 months in stainless steel
Filtering:
Sterile filtered to remove yeast
Bottling date:
3/19/03
Total Acidity:
.6%
Residual Sugar:
.7%
Alcohol:
12%
Aging Potential:
5 years +
Cases produced:
632
Release date:
September 2003
 

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