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Cabernet Sauvignon 2004
Barrel Reserve Red.
Ripe plum, cherry, rose fruit in the nose, chocolate, soft, vanilla almond oak structure, will age for many years.
0.5% residual sugar |
Merlot 2003
Barrel Reserve Red.
Bursting ripe cherry, ripe dark blackberry, rose, aniseed, full bodied vanilla almond oak structure, will age for many years.
0.2% residual sugar |
Cabernet Franc 2003
Barrel Reserve Red.
Bold Bordeaux varietal, very complex, cherry-blackberry fruit, violet, excellent vanilla almond oak structure, hints of spice soft pepper and licorice, will age for many years.
0.5% residual sugar
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Vintners Select Late harvest Chardonnay 2005
Stainless steel tank cool, slow fermentation and steel tank aged. The clarity and brilliance combined with the nose of pineapple, apricot, passion fruit and with a tropical fruit finish. Long, clean, and silky mouth feel. RS 1%
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| Pale gold in color with a
vibrant citrus, apricot, this wine has a big nose of caramel and honeysuckle
with creamy underpinnings. This wine is crisp on the palate with good acidity.
On entry, it’s crisp with peach and pineapple flavors that burst on the palate.
More full bodied than the most wines, it has good mouth feel with flavors that
linger. The finish is long with citrus notes. RS 1% |
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Tri-Dition 2004
Soft spice nose, cinnamon, dark berry jam, blackberry, plum, a flutter of lavender, violet, vanilla almond oak structure, will age for many years. (0.2 residual sugar) |
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Farms in N.Y.'s Finger Lakes wine region looking ripe
Tuesday December 4, 2001
Farms in N.Y.'s Finger Lakes wine region looking ripe
By BEN DOBBIN -- Associated Press
DRESDEN, N.Y. -- Winemaker John Martini surveys his neighbor's 105-acre field, still knotted with stubbles of oats and soybeans, and envisions row after row of grapevines woven into its gentle slopes above Seneca Lake.
Starting this spring, he will begin an eight- to nine-years process of transforming this big chunk of Dave Christiansen's pasture into a vineyard for a renowned California grape-growing family.
By then, Christiansen, a cow breeder who got out of the dairy industry when his son opted not to follow in his footsteps, expects to be a better golfer. And Californian Robert Young, who bought a third of Christiansen's farm at $3,000 an acre, now in 2004-5 the same acres would sell for over $12,000 per acre -- and asked Martini to plant a vineyard -- is banking on a bright future.
"One of the best vineyardists plunking down money to be in the Finger Lakes -- that says, 'Hmmm, there's something really good going on here,"' said Jim Trezise, president of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation.
One of America's oldest grape-growing regions is getting noticed.
Twenty-five years ago, there were a dozen wineries in the region. Today, there are 74. Many are busy erecting bigger tasting rooms, a dozen have added restaurants and some are opening guesthouses. Visitors have swelled to 2.7 million, a sevenfold increase since 1985.
Of 11,000 acres of vineyards encircling four of the 11 finger-shaped lakes in west-central New York, about 3,000 acres are now set aside for European vinifera vines, judged the world's finest. As recently as 1997, nine out of 10 grapes were French-American or native American varieties, the latter for churning out grape juice or sweet, one-dimensional wines.
Young's arrival, the latest and perhaps most significant symbol of outside interest, is being compared with the early rush of European investment into California some 30 years ago. His $1.4 million outlay is the California wine industry's first in the Finger Lakes.
Trezise said his trade association has fielded five times as many calls about land availability since Young bought land there this summer.
The big attractions? A grape-friendly microclimate, a solid infrastructure for both the grape and wine businesses, plenty of room to expand and low prices. In Sonoma County's Alexander Valley, where the Youngs tend 317 acres, real estate has skyrocketed to around $60,000 an acre.
"My dad is a cautious investor, he watches his pennies and that's how he's gotten where he is," said James Young, vineyard manager at Robert Young Vineyards. "He just sees a tremendous value there. The wine quality keeps increasing, we see the tourism going up, the area's so beautiful.
Martini, 59, has been growing grapes on Seneca Lake's western shore since 1973 and started his winery, Anthony Road, in 1989. He expects to plant 15 to 20 acres of vinifera for the Youngs each year. He'll also manage and harvest the vineyard, selling Riesling, gewurtztraminer, pinot gris and perhaps merlot under his own label.
"We're only going to build up this region by putting out very high-quality wines," Martini said. "They can be, and probably should be, distinctive."
Warm days and chilly nights on the hillsides framing the lakes create a tantalizing balance of sugar and acid in grapes. The area's wineries have routinely won accolades for quality chardonnay, Riesling and pinot noir.
Grand Harvest Award 2006 winners |
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