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Don Rice

Don Rice
Andrew and Jen - go go go the Finger Lakes need you.

2009 Pinot noir pushes my pleasure buttons - pure, pure red fruit and bright acidity. 11.9% I want to buy more to age over the short term.

2009 Chard - cloudy with a leesy, lazy petillance - crisp pear and stone fruit, genuine and interesting.

2009 Cab franc - purple, tannic and very bright, perhaps too acid right now. Ballsy winemaking! I love it at 11.9% (Another bottle had a touch of nail polish and a slight prickle) The most rustic of the three.
 
Thanks, Don. God bless you.

And the pinot IS the gamay. There's very little gamay grown in the Finger Lakes but last year we found someone willing to part with a ton. After the wine fermented it tasted suspiciously like pinot noir. A little research with the nurserymen revealed that the "gamay noir" in question is also known as pinot noir clone 19 which is also known as upright pinot or pinot droit. As legend has it sometime in the 1800's nurserymen in California noticed some of the pinot noir cuttings they were propagating were high in acidity and grew straight up so they renamed them gamay noir. In response the French dubbed true gamay as Gamay Noir au jus Blanc which is what you want to look for if you're thinking about buying some gamay vines in North America. Anyway, it's perfectly legal, and quite common, to sell the vines and wine as gamay noir in the US but the fact is it is just pinot.

Best,
Kay
 
Hmm. I believe the name Gamay Noir au Jus Blanc was given to differentiate from the red-juice varieties also identified, locally, at least, as Gamay.
 
Is there ever a white gamay?

Shinn on the North Fork of Long Island makes a white Pinot Noir.

So does Cdric Bouchard in the Champagne region of France (a still wine).
 
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