The Winemaker: Stony Hill Vineyard
"In Vino Veritas" (Truth in Vine)
Updated 04/06/2007
1957 marked the first vintage of Stony Hill Gewürztraminer, the ancient and revered varietal grape of Alsace. Made bone dry in the Alsatian style. Perhaps the oldest or one of the earliest Traminers (Gewürztraminers) produced in California.
Source: http://www.stonyhillvineyard.com/wine/
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Stony
Hill Vineyard Gewürztraminer 2003, Tasting Notes: Our 2003 Gewürztraminer
is pale straw in color and the first whiff is redolent of grapefruit and lots of
perfume and flowers. No one can miss the distinctive Gewurztraminer aroma, and
it provoked Mike Chelini to ask, "What do pearls smell like?" No one
can really describe the scent, yet it's evocative of rose petals, leading you
expect a sweetness in the taste. But this wine is bone dry with a notable acid
balance. Shockingly delicate now in its youth, it will begin to develop
spiciness and richness within a year and promises to age for ten years or more.
Hot chilies, whether Thai-inspired or from the Texas Panhandle, make the wine
taste sweet and opulent. Have to order by case $162.00plus tax & shipping)
or receive one bottle as part of a three bottle sampler. Farming: dry-farmed;
Age of vines: 15 to 45 years; Appellation: Napa Valley; Varietal: 100%
Gewurztraminer; Grapes: Grown, produced and bottled at Stony Hill Vineyard;
Harvest date: 9/12 - 9/15; Fermentation time: 5 to 7 days in 60 gallon, old
French oak barrels; Fermentation temperature: 60 degrees; Aging time: 6 months
in oak
Filtering: Filtered to remove yeast and inhibit malolactic fermentation, and to
make wine brilliant
Bottling date: 3/11/2004; Total Acidity: .64%; Residual Sugar: Dry; Alcohol:
11%; Aging Potential: 5 years +; Cases produced: 326. Price at winery: $18.
| NRRP | Stony Hill Vineyards Gewürztraminer, Napa. (RP laments the fact that he hadn't tasted the winery's vintages ('85-'87) because of the quality of their Chardonnays, page 794.) |
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