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TASTING NOTES

Fresh and unctuous with delicate apricots, lemon oil, yellow pears, and ginger. It's luscious and refined with cherry blossom marked with toasty sweet spice.

VINEYARD NOTES

Pinot Gris was first brought to the Finger Lakes by our founder. Our current plots on our Keuka vineyard were planted in 1997, 1999, and 2002 on 18-15 rootstocks. Vineyards on our Keuka estate are shallow, shale-based soils which adds minerality, acidity, and elegance. Pinot Gris was planted in 2012 on our Seneca estate vineyard located in Hector, New York, in the warmest mesoclimate in the Finger Lakes known as the ‘Banana Belt’. Temperatures here are a few degrees warmer than Keuka thus providing riper fruit notes. Soils on Seneca are characterized by deep honeoye silt loam.
A small portion of the grapes come from Eric Volz Vineyard, just north across the road from Dr. Konstantin Frank’s plantings on Keuka Lake. Pinot Gris was planted in 1990.This vineyard is managed by Eric Volz, current Vineyard Manager for the winery, who worked alongside his father Walter and grandfather, Dr. Konstantin Frank.

VARIETY

100% Pinot Gris.

VINIFICATION

De-Stemmed. Direct Press.

VESSEL

Stainless Steel & 500l French Puncheons.

FERMENTATION

50% Barrel Fermented in 500l French Puncheons.

ÉLEVAGE

17% in 500l French Puncheons for 3 Months.

STYLE

Dry.