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Osmote Long Island Chardonnay 2023

Osmote Long Island Chardonnay 2023

12.5% abv

Vol- 75cl

This is full of orchard fruit aromas like Nashi pear and Cortland apple ensconced in a slightly broader frame than the usual Finger Lakes Chardonnay, mineral style. It is rich and pleasing with a delicate kiss of oak from only very large and older French oak barrels.

Product of a beautiful collaboration with the Macari vineyard on the North Fork of Long Island. 2023 brought a horrendous frost to the Finger Lakes, and it was unclear if there would be much local fruit available, so Osmote was excited to work with organic minded farmers on nearby Long Island. Harvested on 10/5/23, then direct to press. Juice was shipped to the Finger Lakes where it fermented at the Osmote winery in older 400L French oak barrels. Aged on lees until first racking at 1 month before bottling.

Macari Vineyard is a family farm since the 1970s, this is one of the largest Long Island vineyard tracts at around 500 acres. Now managed by the third generation, there is great biodiversity across the farm as they also raise horses, beef cattle, and llamas amongst other animals, and have integrated both grape marc and livestock manure into an integrative compost program to feed the vines. Long Island is effectively a giant sandbar that washed out from the Hudson River at the end of the last Ice Age. It encompasses the NYC boroughs of Kings and Queens, but the vineyard land is isolated to the far east ends of the island. With the maritime influences of the Atlantic Ocean, the Peconic Bay, and especially important, the Long Island Sound, which protects from northern Arctic Blasts of cold, Long Island appreciates a great deal of frost protection.

Bottled May 2024. 136 cases produced.

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£28.00inclusive of Duty and VAT

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The Finger Lakes AVA lies five hours north of New York city, to the south of Lake Ontario & the Canadian border. The region sits on the extremity of many a wine convention:- this is seriously cool climate production made possible only by the tempering effect of the lakes and Vinifera only arrived here in the 1950s and still has to prove its worth to many farmers more used to selling hybrids to the tourist markets. Amongst the wineries and winemakers pushing to advance the region and craft wines of quality and distinction to match the best sites' potential is local Ben Riccardi. Ben brings the sensibilities of a young gun who has worked in Sonoma, New Zealand and France along with Big Apple attitude from time honing his skills at Manhattan's City Winery. Using fruit from both Seneca and Cayuga Lakes - there are 11 Lakes in total with four considered the best for winemaking and these two with their own AVAs - Ben makes low-intervention, wild-yeast wines that revel in freshness and lower alcohol. We love the lightness of touch he brings to his Chardonnays (both unoaked and with some large barrel influence), Riesling and Cab Franc. The hybrids that can often lead the region astray- along with being freezing in the winter there can be considerable pressure on vines during hot and humid summers - are focussed and original.

Reference #:
22902
Strength
12.5 ABV
Bottles per Case
6 bottles
Grapes
Chardonnay
Organic
No
Biodynamic
No
Vegan
Yes
Vegetarian
Yes
Sparkling
No

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