Featherstone Winery & Vineyard Gewurztraminer 2007

V.Q.A. Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada
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Natalie's Score: 87/100 Community Score: 4.4/5 Community Reviews: 3 Add My Review Product #: 64592 Wine Type: White Wine	Price: $18.95 Alcohol: 13% Drink: Now Sweetness: Medium Dry Bottle size: 750 ml Winery: Featherstone Winery
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Tasting note:

Exotic and aromatic notes of lychee, nuts and rose petals. Closed with a screwcap. Food matches: Asian dishes.

Reviewed August 16, 2008 by Natalie MacLean

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Sooryn rated this wine as 90/100 with the following review:

My favorite Gewurztraminer

Featherstone Gewurztraminer 2008

Vineyard: Featherstone Vineyard, Twenty Mile Bench, Vineland

Winemaker: Dave Johnson

Soils: Heavy Clay Vine Density: 1200/Acre

Planted: 2001 Rootstock: SO4 Clone: 49

Date Picked: 18th October 2008

Fruit Condition: Extremely Healthy, 6% Noble Rot

Handling: Hand Picked into small 25 kg picking bins allowing the fruit to arrive at the winery’s sorting table intact. Fruit was hand sorted, crushed and destemmed. Cold soak skin maceration for 24 hours. Juice yield less than 600 litres per tonne and transferred into stainless steel fermentation tank. 36 hours of natural cold settling then racked off gross lees. Pink hue to juice prior to fermentation.

Fermentation: Fermented with commercial yeast strain W15 . Fermentation temperature set to 12.5 degrees Celsius and began 25th October 2008. The ferment was kept on lees until 7th January 2009. Total time on primary lees: 8 weeks

Bottling date: January 15th 2009 Total

production: 183 cases

Wine analysis at bottling:
pH 2.43 T.A 9.07 g/L Alc. 12.5 % alc./vol R.S 10.6 g/L
Cellaring potential: 5 + years

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Serve this wine between 55-60 degrees Farenheit or 12-16 degrees Celsius. Tip: If your bottle is at room temperature, put it in ice water for about 30 minutes or in the fridge for about three hours to chill it.