Gewurztraminer 'Love O Love'

• Practicing Sustainable/Organic
• 100% old vine Gewürztraminer
• Gerber Vineyard (Rouge Valley AVA)
• Planted in 1976
• Alluvial clay firms the silty, sandy soil with serpentine
• 1600 ft. elevation
• Dry-farmed
• Whole cluster pressed
• Nothing is added to the juice – no sulfur, nutrients, enzymes or yeast
• Native fermentation takes place in concrete egg, and acacia barrel
• After nine months of lees contact, the wine is racked and blended
• No cold stabilization or fining
• Minimal SO2 in the cellar (20-40ppm).
• Does not go through ML
• 325 cases produced
• 13.5% abv

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