Bloomer Creek Vineyard, "Tanzen Dame" Dry Riesling 2017, Barrow Vineyard Reserve, Seneca Lake, Finger Lakes, NY

This complex dry Riesling is bright and juicy with note of citrus, white pepper, and spring herbs along with a long, earthy finish

COUNTRY: USA

STATE: NY

APPELLATION (AVA): Finger Lakes

REGION: Upstate NY

SUBREGION: Seneca Lake

VINEYARD: Barrow Vineyard Reserve

VINTAGE: 2017

GRAPES:  Riesling

SOIL: Schist

PRACTICE: Practicing organic

VINIFICATION: Minimal intervention – full malolactic, two days maceration of skin contact maceration, fermented in stainless steel, minimal SO2, unfined/unfiltered.

STYLE: Still

COLOR: Hazy light yellow

BODY: Medium (5-6)

TASTE: Dry

PRIMARY AROMAS: Tangerine, melon, white pepper, spring herbs

FLAVOR: Bright and juicy, Meyer lemon, grapefruit pith, ripe melon, long earthy finish

FORMAT: 750 ml

ALCOHOL: 12.5%

SERVICE AND SUGGESTION:

ABOUT THE PRODUCER: 
In 1982 Kim Engle and Deb Bermingham purchased a thirty-acre farm in the Finger Lakes region, ten acres of which they planted to a variety of cool climate grapes. They named the vineyard Bloomer Creek and for the last three decades they have meticulously farmed it using organic methods.

They employ no herbicides, no irrigation, fruit is hand-harvested, and only natural native yeasts are used for fermentation. They often utilize whole clusters in their winemaking, including the whites, extended lees aging, and they allow fermentations to progress at their own rate without using temperature control.

In a part of the world where winemakers don’t often take risks, Bloomer Creek seems afraid not to and the results are wonderful. Both their whites and their reds are incredibly distinctive, age-worthy and expressive of the place and time in which they were produced. That place is the Finger Lakes, and Bloomer Creek may be the single most unique, and compelling voice in town.

ABOUT THE VINEYARD: 
In 2013, Bloomer Creek purchased a vineyard, abandoned for over 30 years, on the East side of Seneca Lake. The high rocky hillside was planted to eight acres of vines; Riesling, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. Vinified from extended skin-contact and spontaneously fermented in stainless steel, this 2017 Riesling Reserve is a compelling interplay between mineral power and sumptuous fruit. Unfined and unfiltered, with minimal S02 only at bottling. Barrow in Old Norse means “high rocky hill and burial mound.”