Keuka Spring Blaufrankisch / 750 ml

Between a traditional rose and a classic red wine in color, it is designed for early consumption, delighting your palate with its bright cranberry and raspberry notes and its delicate structure. The Austrian variety Blaufrankisch (in Germany, Lemberger), is a red grape of central European origin that grows happily in our relatively cool Finger Lakes terroir. Rather than fermenting the Blaufrankisch juice traditionally, that is, after crushing and de-stemming the fruit, we kept the clusters and berries intact, and fermented them in a CO2-saturated vessel for 20 days--a method called carbonic maceration. We then pressed the whole clusters and allowed the fermentation to finish naturally without the skins. 2023 NYS Governor's Cup Best Red Wine.