2014 Envelope

We have not released a new vintage of this very special wine for more than two years and WOW, this wine is electric! The color, the aromas, the flavors, the textures all pulse with vitality. Our 2014 Envelope is exotic, enticing, exciting and is all about paradox. A white wine with color... made like a red...a white with tannin and structure...a full-bodied, broad wine with moderate alcohol and a cleansing, juicy quality with full malo-lactic fermentation! This is fantastic stuff! Our 2014 Envelope is an intriguingly aromatic and an intoxicatingly delicious skin-fermented "orange" wine. The flavors and aromas are reflective of apricots, peaches, honey, roses, lychees, brown spice, brown sugar, apple compote, minerals, butterscotch and dried papaya. This is nuts, yes there are those flavors too in this complex, inviting wine. Made from 54% Chardonnay, 38% Gewurztraminer and 8% Malvasia Bianca this is a dry, full-bodied white that has a gorgeous deep golden appearance. This is a balanced, long wine that would be delicious with corn, squash, smoked ham, duck and figs, quince paste and cheese, seeds, root vegetables, caramelized flavors and most things porcine. All the fruit was hand-harvested from our home farm in Bridgehampton and was gently de-stemmed, crushed by foot and fermented on its skins. The wine was all co-fermented (all with wild/ambient yeast) for 16 days on its skins after which the wine was bucketed out and pressed off, then put in 27% new oak and the rest old/neutral oak (4-year-old) where the wine spent 22 months before it was bottled. 288 cases of this very special wine were produced. 6 bottle max per customer.