Tasting Notes
The “Geekiness” is on the rise with this wine! Reductive notes of flint and mineral frame all the beautiful stone fruit and fragrance of Riesling come together with the freshness of other grape varieties. It is practically immortal and will age well for the next decade and beyond. Drink with freshly shucked oysters, sushi, and the geek you love most.
Winemaker's Notes
With this fourth vintage of the Geek Riesling, the tanks get bigger, but the production volume stays about the same.
Hand-picked and hand-sorted grapes were gently whole cluster-pressed. Treated the same as the Wismer-Foxcroft Riesling for the first 2/3 of the fermentation process, a portion of the wine was drawn off when fermentation ended on the Wismer-Foxcroft Riesling and allowed to ferment to dryness in a separate tank. As fermentations from other white wines (Riesling, Chardonnay & Sauvignon Blanc) were completed, their lees were added to this drawn-off portion. All the lees from the 2014, 2015 & 2016 vintages of this wine were added on August 27, 2018. Allowed to age on these extra lees for 22 months, the 2017 Geek Riesling was racked and bottled on September 12th, 2019, unfined and unfiltered.
Our “Solera Lees” system will continue into future vintages until we can answer the question: How much lees is “too much” lees? Only “The Geek” knows!
