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Tasting Notes:
Who remembers when we last released our White Riesling in
brown bottles? Yes, indeed! It was 1979, exactly twenty-five years
ago, and we thought we would mark the anniversary by doing it again.
When you open the first bottle you will be amazed that the fruit
from gnarled, fifty-six year old vines can produce a wine as fresh
and lively as our 2003 White Riesling. It is palest straw color
with a scent of apricots and orange blossoms. At the first sip,
a great fruity flavor explodes in your mouth, like biting into summer's
perfect, first ripe nectarine. We are thrilled that White Riesling
is making such a strong comeback and hope you enjoy it as much as
we do.
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Farming:
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dry-farmed
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Age of vines:
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10 - 56 years |
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Appellation:
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Napa Valley |
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Varietal:
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100% White Reisling |
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Grapes:
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Grown, produced
and bottled at Stony Hill Vineyard |
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Harvest date:
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9/16 - 9/23 |
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Fermentation time:
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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. |
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Fermentation temperature:
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50 degrees |
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Aging time:
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6 months in stainless
steel |
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Filtering:
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Sterile filtered
to remove yeast |
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Bottling date:
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3/11/2004 |
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Total Acidity:
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.66% |
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Residual Sugar:
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.9% |
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Alcohol:
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12% |
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Aging Potential:
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5 years + |
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Cases produced:
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505 |
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Release date:
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September 2004 |
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Price at winery:
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$18.00 per bottle
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2003 Stony Hill White Riesling