2024 Albariño

2024 Albariño

 

Tasting Notes:

The perfect accompaniment to your seafood table.  This lively wine with notes of ripe cantaloupe and a subtle salinity has a round mid-palate and a lingering finish.

Winemaking Notes:

Our second time working with this lovely grape from Kraemer Vineyards in the Mount Angel area. The grapes were hand harvested and whole cluster pressed to minimize skin contact.  Pressing decisions are done by taste and the cycle was stopped at just over one bar of pressure in order to minimize potential phenolics.  After three days of settling, the juice was racked off its lees and inoculated.  Stainless steel fermentation with temperatures being kept at 55° to 58°F lasted about fiveweeks until the wine was nearly dry while still maintaining its lovely tropical flavors.  The wine was crossflow filtered and bottled under screwcap in January 2025. 

Harvest Notes:

The 2024 growing season started with a wet January and February and a mild spring.  Bud break occurred in mid-April with bloom following on schedule in middle to end of June.  The rest of the growing season was almost ideal with moderate day time temperatures and cool nights, leading to a long, slow ripening season.  A few short heat spikes in July and August kept us on track for an October harvest.  The lovely October allowed us to stretch harvest out this year with the first grapes harvested on September 29th and our last pick October 24th.  Great flavor concentration, balanced acidity and moderate alcohols means the 2024 wines will be excellent now and into the future.

Our estate vineyard, Dunn Forest, is LIVE certified sustainable and Salmon Safe. The vineyard is hand cultivated allowing us to respond to individual vine needs.

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