June’s Riesling 2023
Tasting Notes
Aromas of fresh lime, peach blossom, spring rain, herbal, minerality and flint. On the palate, flavours of white peach, yellow pear, honeysuckle, tart lime, and stony minerality, with a refreshing and rich finish.
Enjoy with Thai green curry, Lake Ontario pickerel with lime beurre blanc or fresh green salads.
$20.15
APPELLATION
VQA Creek Shores
VINEYARD
Lakeshore Farms Vineyard
GRAPE VARIETY
100% Riesling
BRIX AT HARVEST
20.2
ALCOHOL CONTENT
11.%%
RESIDUAL SUGAR
2.0 grams/Litre
WINEMAKING NOTES
Grapes from Lakeshore Farms is older vines with sandy loam soil and Lakeshore Vineyard is younger vines with light rich sandy soil. The grapes were harvested in mid-November and immediately pressed into stainless steel tanks for a cool fermentation which was stopped to retain balancing residual sugar. The wine was lightly fined and filtered before bottling in April 2022.
VINTAGE NOTES
A mild winter, accompanied with warmer than warmer-than-average temperatures led to an early start to the growing season in 2023 (Bud break recorded May 5th). Conditions throughout the Spring and Summer were highly variable, a mix of extreme heat and cool spells with intermittent and isolated heavy rains caused a wide range of fruit maturity among most varieties. This led to a slightly delayed start to the 2023 harvest (3rd week of September. Two weeks later than 2022). Once harvest began, conditions were near perfect, consisting of mostly dry, warm days and cool nights with little precipitation. The first grapes to come into the cellar were Chardonnay for sparkling. Followed by aromatic whites and lighter reds such as Riesling and Gamay from late September through mid-October. Later ripening reds such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc were harvested mid to late November concluding harvest. Overall quality was good to excellent, with yields ranging greatly
