Brilliant appearance with pale yellow straw colour. The 2008 Estate Riesling displays intense beeswax nose with pink grapefruit, Meyer lemons and aromatic white flowers. The palate is rich with beautiful riesling purity and seamlessness. The wine has a generous mouthfeel and offers flavours of honey and yellow grapefruit. This is an ideal food wine, showing some tension on the palate from the acidity and delivering a persistent, fresh dry finish.

Winemaker's Comments

We exposed all the bunches to sunlight at fruit set with leaf removal on both sides of the canopy to maximize fruit ripening. Green harvest was performed at the first sign of veraison and we left only the best bunches in order to promote ripening, concentration of flavours and expression of the Beamsville Bench terroir.

The grapes were handpicked, hand sorted and lightly whole bunch pressed. The juice was cold settled for 21 days and then the juice  was racked and warmed to 20 degrees Celcius. It took three weeks for the native yeast to start fermentation and fermentation lasted for 3 months. The wine was then filtered before bottling.