| 2006 A to Z Riesling, Oregon 12 Pack
Oregon, USA |
Product Notes:
The wine is a bright, crystal clear green/gold color. Fresh aromas of slate, lime, white flowers, minerals and citrus leap from the glass. More complex nuances of strawberries, orange blossom and spice emerge in time. In the mouth, the wine is vibrant and alive with focused and powerful flavors that echo the aromas on the attack. A long, clean finish with final flavors of wet stones and minerals completes this complex and beautiful wine. This wine will gain complexity over the next ten years, but is already drinking great now.
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 About Estate:
Oregon is blessed with some very old Riesling plantings which survived the drive in the 1980s to replant every vineyard with Pinot Noir. Our 2006 Riesling is blended from four vineyards with an average vine age of 25 years. Two of the younger vineyards are located in Southern Oregon in higher altitude vineyards in the Rogue and Applegate Valleys. These valleys have very warm days and cool nights allowing us to pick the Riesling almost in November. The two oldest vineyards are located in the Eola Hills and the Chehalem Ridge areas in the Northern Willamette Valley. These vineyards are picked riper in late October with a little less acidity and more honeyed and floral characteristics than the vineyards from the South. All of the berries were pressed whole cluster and then variously inoculated with different yeasts to
add complexity. No malolactic fermentation transpired.
VINTAGE
The 2006 Oregon growing season started late and wet necessitating more sprays than normal to keep the mildew at bay. Great weather for flowering set the largest crop that that we have seen in a few years – a still modest 2.5 tons to the acre average (opposed to 1.4 – 1.8 tons to the acre like we saw in 2003, 2004 and 2005). A gorgeous summer heated dramatically in June and July, but cooled appreciably in August to begin a soft slow slide into harvest. After a bit of rain in late August and early September in the northern Willamette Valley, we saw the return of the heat which pushed the smaller sized berries into overdrive. We harvested the Riesling the last week of October.
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