Finger Lakes, New York

DESCRIPTION:

The Dry Riesling has a classic pale straw color with a crisp green hue. The nose shows typical Keuka Lake minerality with fresh lemon citrus and apple with an intriguing blossom aroma. The palate shows wonderful tight acid that balances out the fruity residual sugar enhancing the floral and bringing out the bright tangerine flavors. The palate also displays the slatey mineral characteristics that typify Dr. Frank's Rieslings. Serve with all fin fish and shell fish.

VINIFICATION:

The fruit was harvested by hand during the cool hours of the morning and cold pressed. The juice was then cold settled and fermented at low temperatures with specially selected German wine yeasts. A long slow fermentation enhances the fruit aromatics.  The fermentation was arrested just prior to dryness to balance the grape's natural acidity.

PAIRING:

Serve with all fin fish and shell fish. This wine has great ageing potential.

AWARDS:

2010- New York Wine & Food Classic: Double Gold
2010- Long Beach Grand Cru Wine Competition: Gold
2010- Los Angeles International Wine Competition: Gold, 94 Points
2010- Golden Nose Wine Competition: Double Gold
2011- BTI World Wine Championships: Gold, 90 Points & Best Buy
2010-Finger Lakes International Wine Competition: Gold

 

CHARDONNAY and MACEBEO BLEND From Cariñena is one of the oldest protected wine-growing regions in Europe. It has a continental climate with a large difference between day and night-time temperatures which gives the region’s wines a characteristic intensity.

BARON DE FUNES White blend is an estate-bottled wine from the Denominacion de Origen (D.O) CARIÑENA, the home of the Grenache (or Garnacha) grape. D.O. Cariñena has the most “Old Vine” Garnacha in Spain. This white blend is the sister in the team of wine selections.

BARON DE FUNES is a blend of Chardonnay 70% and Macebeo 30%, the Chardonnay lending strength and dryness to the Macebeo varietal.

The BARON DE FUNES wine is made in the strictly delineated D.O. Cariñena in northeast Spain, a controlled appellation with many of the same requirements of the Rioja. D.O. Cariñena consists of over 25,000 acres of vineyards with 1,500 winegrowers since 1932. (Pronounced CAR-EEN-YENA) The vines are planted in poor soil and up to 70 years of age. The altitude above sea level is 1200 feet to 1800 feet depending on the vineyard. The high elevation of the vineyards results in more freshness of the grapes, more acidity. The vines are pruned severely with the overriding principle in mind that quality, not quantity, is preferred.

The wine itself, in the words of the winemaker, Bright yellow straw color with an aromatic, zesty citrus and floral bouquet. Clean and crisp, with a notable freshness on the palate and refreshing apple and pear flavors... This wine is ideal with all sorts of tapas, antipasti, rice dishes and cheeses.

Ideally pairs deliciouly with garlic prawns or calamari.

 

 

A great white wine, it has a buttery taste in the mouth, and it is elegant and balanced.

An excellent wine for meat dishes, particularly red meat. It is perfect with roasts, game and cold cuts as well as with traditional boiled meat dishes.

Serving temperature 18 - 20 °C

SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS

The bouquet has typically fruity notes of cherries and ­ flowery hints of violets fused with a spicy sensation from its brief time in wooden barrels. Well-structured and balanced with evolved, rounded tannin.

TECHNICAL DATA

Area of origin: Monastier & San Polo di Piave

Variety: 90 - 95% Raboso Piave, with a small percentage of Raboso Veronese.

Training system: Sylvoz and the traditional Bellussi system

Harvest period: Fairly late

Yield Kg grapes per ha: 13,000 kg

Vini­cation: Traditional with the must kept in contact with the pomace for a long time and partial ripasso over the pomace of the Raboso passito following our own traditional method

Maturing: Part in oak barrels, the rest in stainless steel containers

Alcohol: 13% Vol.

Sugar residue: 6.00 - 7.00 g/l

Total acidity: 6.00 - 6.20 g/l

Grower:                              

Jean-Luc and Marie-Lise Dorthe

Grape Varieties:              

Grenache (60%) and Syrah (40%), with an average vine age of 46 years.

Village:                                

Saint Marcel d’Ardeche, 45 miles northwest of Avignon. The area is rich with ancient ruins, including vestiges of a Roman outpost.  The vineyard once served as a Roman military outpost.

Soil:                                       

Drift boulders of limestone, for the first 2 meters over granite and alluvial clay.

Vinification:                       

Integrated farming, with hand harvesting, organic herbicides use, no pesticides and the utilization of sustainable agriculture which respects the

environment established by the Forum de l'Agriculture Raisonnée Respecteuse l'Environnement. Three passes in the vineyard, for only,

unbroken healthy grapes. Grenache and Syrah are de-stemmed entirely. Fermentation at 45 °F for a duration of 21 days, without oak.

Tasting Notes:

“Lightly dusty-edged black cherry and black currant fruit is lined with a graphite note. A hint of lavender chimes in on the finish.”

HISTORY

Our main goal is to produce wines with an extreme personality in an area where we think that it is very unique to grow grapes and make very interesting wines.

The project was born in 2009 with the vision of producing great wines in a remote and surprising region. Several varieties are very well adapted to the climate, the soils and the altitude of this region of Spain, making it possible to produce wines with character and a definite sense of place.

PADULES- THE REGION OF IGP RIBERA DEL ANDARAX

Padules, is the village where Pagos de Indalia is located, it is nestled on the Andarax creek between Sierra Nevada and Sierra Gador. This landscape, with big ravines and big slopes, forces us to use mules in many of our vineyards where you cannot use machines and you have to travel back to the old times to take care of the grapes.

The vineyards are calcareous in the area of the Andarax creek and amazing slate soils closer to Sierra Nevada, in the highest vineyards, where elevations top 3300 feet over sea level.

SOILS.

The beginning of our adventure.

ORGANIC MINDS

Our philosophy is to preserve the environment of the region. All the vineyards that we own are certified by the government of Andalucia with the stamp of organic agriculture.

VARIETAL:  50% Syrah / 50% Temp.  The Syrah has been very well adapted to the calcareous soils that we have around Padules. The Tempranillo

Is in the highest altitudes and grown in very dry soils. Those vines are alive just with the humidity of the Alborán sea mist. This particular microclimate combined with the slate soils and with a huge difference in temperature between day/night, allows us to produce wines with a mineral character that are very age worthy.  We produced this wine in collaboration with Gretchen Thomas, Barcelona’s Corporate Director of Beverage. Please Enjoy!

 

Intense ruby red color with purple reflections.

On the nose, red fruit, particularly raspberry and strawberry).

On the palate, fresh and very fine tannins that give elegance and personality to
this wine.