Forge Cellars
Forge Cellars Forge Cellars Breakneck Creek Vineyard Dry Riesling 2023 750ml
- Color
- White
- Type
- Table Wine
- Grape
- Riesling
- Country
- United States
- Region
- New York
- Appellation
- Finger Lakes
- Sub-Appellation
- Seneca Lake
- ABV
- 13%
Availability & Pricing
Premier Wine & Spirits
2023 vintage
Only $24.29 each when you buy a solid or mixed case
Location: 13B | 4, W-53
Premium Wine & Spirits
2022 vintage
Only $24.29 each when you buy a solid or mixed case
Location: W-55
Details
- Brand
- Forge Cellars
- Product Type
- Wine
- Size
- 750ml
- Package Type
- Bottle
- ABV
- 13%
- UPC
- 752830876989
About This Wine
Producer Notes
Tucked behind the shadow of salinity are the flowers of the vintage, delicate yet perceptible in the glass. Perhaps this was most noticeable in the difference between the two clones of Riesling harvested at Breakneck, each vinified and aged separately, and each showing remarkably distinctive personalities. On the one hand, we had a clone that showed classic Breakneck features–salt, gravel, vibrancy–and on the other, we had a suave new persona filled with wild roses and lilies.
Critical Acclaim
Very deep and concentrated with enormous minerality, this great dry riesling has incredible saline intensity in the wet-stone finish. In spite of all the power, this is still only medium-bodied. Only just opening up. From vines planted in 1992 on loam over shale soil. Wild-fermented in neutral puncheon oak casks and matured on the lees for 10 months. Drink or hold.
Changing it up a bit, the 2023 Dry Riesling Breakneck Creek Vineyard is loaded with ripe, citrusy fruit (tangerines), balanced by a briny notion that almost recalls the shallow seas that overlaid the Finger Lakes region in the distant geological past. It's medium-bodied and zesty-salty on the palate, with a long, silky-textured finish.
An extroverted white, with mustard flower, peach, mango, ginger and turmeric notes that zip along over slightly pithy acidity. Drink now through 2027. 361 cases made.