2025 Müller Thurgau

2025 MÜLLER THURGAU

Tasting Notes:
Our first vintage from the new Estate plantings, we love this wine on a picnic with friends.  Lightly sweet and highly approachable, it pairs well with just about everything.

Winemaking Notes:

The grapes were hand harvested and immediately pressed off to minimize skin contact.  Pressing decisions are done by taste and the cycle was stopped at just over one bar of pressure to minimize potential phenolics.  After pressing, the juice settled for several days before being racked and inoculated. Fermentation temperatures were kept at 52° to 55°F and lasted about three weeks until the wine tasted balanced.  The wine was cold stabilized and after crossflow filtering, bottled under screwcap in December 2025.

Harvest Notes:

2025 kickstarted the growing season with a warm and early spring that continued into a warm summer with a little late-summer heat.  Minimal rain led to a good fruit set in spring and low disease pressure throughout the growing season.  This all culminated in a quick and compressed harvest beginning with Maréchal Foch on September 19th and wrapping up with Riesling on October 17th, one of our earliest picks here in our 40 years at Airlie.  Great flavor concentration, balanced acidity and moderate alcohols means the 2025 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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