2016 Cahiers Riesling
The Goal: Create the best blend from our various Riesling sites.
The Result: An unctuous yet bright medium sweet Riesling.
Vineyards – 30% La Chenaie, 30% Monks Gate, 20% Ingram Lane, 20% Yamhill
Cahiers (KY-YAY) is French for Notebooks or Journals in rememberance and honor of Jimi Brooks who loved to read and write. Pascal had found his father’s journals after he passed and they allowed him to connect with his father through each journal entry.
We bottled 210 cases in January of 2017 in honor of Pascal’s 21st birthday.
Flavor Notes
2016 Cahiers Riesling is a Medium Sweet wine.
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Brilliant silver-straw. Vibrant, mineral-driven citrus and orchard fruit and floral aromas are complemented by a deeper honeydew nuance. Vibrant and focused on the palate, offering energetic grapefruit pith, pear, bitter quinine and honeysuckle flavors and a spicy white pepper flourish. Closes impressively long and nervy, delivering a resonating mineral note and lingering orchard fruit character.
This medium-sweet Riesling is loaded with notes of ripe apples, ginger and peaches with a long thirst-quenching finish.
Sommelier
Fresh figs, arugula, chevre on grilled flatbread would pair perfectly with the Cahiers.
Chef
Golden sultanas, sweet dates, and honeycomb
Assistant Winemaker
Winemaking Notes
Similar to the previous two vintages, the 2016 growing season continued to push the envelope for defining the new normal in Oregon as one of the earliest on record. An unusually warm spring brought bud break between 2-4 weeks early, and a short heat spell at bloom condensed the flowering period, resulting in a smaller fruit set. Summer provided average conditions with fewer heat spikes than the 2014 or 2015 vintages, which led to smaller berry size and a high concentration of flavors. A warm August shepherded along the early vintage at Brooks, running from September 2-October 12th. Though it was an intense growing season due to the early start, the harvested grapes showed wonderful concentration and complexity with high natural acidity.
- Type
- White
- Varietal
- Riesling
- Region
- Oregon
- Appellation
- Willamette Valley
- Vintage
- 2016
- Vineyards
- Monks Gate Vineyard, La Chenaie Vineyard, Yamhill Vineyard, Ingram Lane Vineyard
- Filtration
- Cross-Flow
- Case production
- 210
- Crush format
- Straight to Press
- Fermentation
- 50-70 degrees fahrenheit
- Bottling date
- 2017-02-01
- Vessel
- Stainless
- Alcohol percentage
- 12
- Residual sugar
- 33.0 g/L
- Ph
- 3.09
- Acid
- 6.7 g/L
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