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Region
USA > Oregon
Appellation
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Grapes
Gewürztraminer
testing staging
Soil
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Facts
Practicing organic, unfiltered, unfined
ABV
13 %
Residual Sugar
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Sulfite Level
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Total Acidity
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Production (Bottles)
2100 bottles
The vineyard
Oak Ridge Vineyard
Age of the wines
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Altitude
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Size
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The cellar
50% of the fruit pressed whole cluster 50% of the fruit fermented with two days skin contact Vinified separately Blended at bottling
Vessel
stainless
Elevage
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Montebruno’s Gewurztraminer is a unique wine, and certainly unlike what you might expect from a Gewurztraminer. Very pleasant and joyful, bringing a small amount of residual sugar but still holding lot’s of freshness, as in all Montebruno’s wine, and avoiding to be dull or heavy, as off-dry wines can often be. It’s also a wine that brings a slight fizz, brought by a second fermentation in the bottle, that can sometimes be the best thing you might want to feel in your palate!
Montebruno’s Gewurztraminer is a unique wine, and certainly unlike what you might expect from a Gewurztraminer. Very pleasant and joyful, bringing a small amount of residual sugar but still holding lot’s of freshness, as in all Montebruno’s wine, and avoiding to be dull or heavy, as off-dry wines can often be. It’s also a wine that brings a slight fizz, brought by a second fermentation in the bottle, that can sometimes be the best thing you might want to feel in your palate!
Montebruno is a winery like no other in the USA . It is the project of Joe Pedicini , deriving the name his grandmother’s maiden name , Angela Montebruno . Joe’s approach to wine has been very much inspired by his grandmother , as she taught him how to make wine while doing it for friends and family , as was common in Italy . She used the old traditional way to make wines , following the practices the her forefathers were using and passing from generation to generation , using minimal technology and additives , relying on the fruit and following the laws of nature . These laws , very often , can also be found in the biodynamic approach , although Joe’s grandma , like many ...