2018 Cahiers Riesling
A delicious, medium sweet Riesling with rich notes of peach syrup, quince, ginger and baking spices.
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.
Flavor Notes
2018 Cahiers Riesling is a Medium Sweet wine.
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Brooks has it all — Great story, great people, great wines.
This medium sweet Riesling has generous, ripe notes of quince, baking spices, ginger, and peach cobbler.
Sommelier
Enjoy this wine with a tuna poke with sriracha aioli, fried garlic chips and fresh chives!
Chef
This medium-sweet Riesling effuses peach, key-lime, and baked apple pie with decent weight and a juicy, succulent finish.
Enologist
Winemaking Notes
2018 Vintage:
A wet and cool April delayed bud break, but by bloom, we were quickly caught up to average tracking for the season. Summer was steadily warm but without heat spikes or temperature extremes experienced in 2016 and 2017.
By mid-September, the vines became weary from much sun and not much water and began to shut down causing ripening to stall. A brief rain event and cool down gave the vines the respite and harvest the jumpstart it needed.
We picked Pinot in a concentrated two-week window running until October 10. The Riesling, however, enjoyed an extended spell of sunny but cool autumnal weather that was perfectly ideal for beautiful ripening lasting through October 22.
The resulting wines from the season are vibrant, fresh, and full of concentrated flavor.
A hallmark vintage!
- Type
- White
- Varietal
- Riesling
- Region
- Oregon
- Appellation
- Willamette Valley
- Vintage
- 2018
- Vineyards
- La Chenaie, Monks Gate, Hope Well
- Filtration
- Cross-Flow
- Case production
- 200
- Crush format
- Straight to press
- Bottling date
- 2019-04-29
- Vessel
- Stainless
- Alcohol percentage
- 11.4
- Residual sugar
- 43.4 g/L
- Ph
- 3.04
- Acid
- 8.6 g/L
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