An approachable and fruit-forward table blend:

54% Marechal Foch

23% Cabernet Franc

18% De Chaunac

6% Vincent

Our first estate Pinot Noir, this wine underwent a process called Carbonic Maceration: the clusters, kept whole, are loaded gently into a tank between layers of dry ice which sublimates into CO2 and pushes out any oxygen present. Under these conditions, the fruit ferments inside each individual berry before pressing, resulting in fresh fruit aromas reminiscent of bing and black cherries and strawberries. The wine was racked to neutral French oak where it developed the lightest touches of vanilla and coffee. Pinot Noir is notoriously difficult to grow here in the Finger Lakes, but with a stellar vintage like 2020, the small volume of fruit grown that year resulted in something truly stunning.

Leon Millot is a grape developed in Alsace, France in the early 1900s with blue skins and small berries. Charles Fournier, a winemaking and grape growing pioneer in the Finger Lakes, planted 1 1/3 acres of two clones, Boordy and Foster, around 1950. In 2009 and 2014, KLV planted another 1 + acres with cuttings from the Fournier Vineyard. The Foster clone and the newer vineyard are farmed on VSP trellis to permit airflow and limit shading, while the one acre of Fournier loose clustered Boordy clone remains on its original umbrella trellis allowing shoots to be tucked downwards to help check this variety’s high vigor. The soils are silty loam with large stone fragments from glacial till, allowing for good drainage but high erosion. Each year we blend the wine made from the two different clones in making our neutral-oak aged, medium-bodied red wine.

50% Blaufrankisch, 32% Saperavi, 18% Cabernet Franc 

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