Paradise Grapevine Golden Hour

Vintage: 2023
Fruit: Riesling (90%) | Chardonnay (10%)
Region: Niagara, Ontario, Canada
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apricot sunday / thyme of our lives / every day a new sun rises 

Golden Hour, the orange gem in our heart and the label we adorn to our favourite skin-contact white of the year. Encompassing three unique and organically farmed (uncertified) parcels across the Niagara Peninsula, this year's blend is made up of 9 parts Riesling and 1 part Chardonnay. The fruit spent an average of 14 days on skins, a gentle maceration more akin to steeping tea than the heavy extraction of other orange wines. By macerating the fruit at a cool temperature we gently infused floral aromatics, under ripe tropical fruits and preserved citrus into the profile. Lovely acidity creates a perfect structure for the light tannins, the freshness is a result of aging in both neutral French oak and stainless steel. Naturally fermented, unfined and unfiltered.