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 2007 Stony Hill White Riesling
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Our 2007 White Riesling is palest straw in color with a brilliant light to it. Try this test to see how brilliant your wine is. Tilt your glass sideways and let a ray of sunshine pass through it. Then playing with the light, see if it makes a brilliant star on the white cloth beneath. If it does, you’ll know you have a quality white wine of notable clarity and acidity. The bouquet in our 2007 Riesling is perfumed with apricots, delicate fresh fruit and a clean hint of mint. On the palate you will taste a mineral quality as well as green grapes and apricots. In addition you’ll note a touch of sweetness which, at one percent residual sugar, we call off-dry. We’ve been serving our Riesling with fresh pea and mint soup and summer corn soup, both of which have a degree of sweetness that enhances this off-dry quality. Other serving suggestions: sushi or Dungeness crab on corn pancakes.
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Farming: |
dry-farmed |
Age of Vines: |
24 - 59 years |
Appellation: |
Napa Valley |
Varietal: |
White Riesling |
Grapes: |
100% White Riesling - Grown, produced and bottled at Stony Hill |
Harvest Date: |
9/7/07 |
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: |
4/3/08 |
Total Acidity: |
.63% |
Residual Sugar: |
1% |
Alcohol: |
12% |
pH: |
3.22 |
Aging Potential: |
5 years + |
Cases Produced: |
371 cases |
Release Date: |
September 2008 |
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2006 Chardonnay | 2007 SHV Chardonnay | 2007 White Riesling
2007 Gewurztraminer | 2006 Semillon de Soleil
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