Viognier Reserve

AREA
Barboursville, Virginia Appellation

GRAPES
100% Viognier

Alcohol Level
13% vol.

BOTTLE SIZE
750 ml.

TYPE OF SOIL
From two gently sloped parcels facing west and between 200-250 meters, the vines grow in well drained Davidson clay loam soil of medium vigor formed from weathered greenstone, the subsoil is a slightly acidic dark red permeable clay.

TRAINING METHOD
Double Guyot (cane pruned) .

PLANT DENSITY 
4.166 per hectare (1,686/acre) 

YIELD 
85 quintals per hectare (3.8 tons/acre) 

VINIFICATION AND AGEING
Grapes are destemmed and cold soaked at 10 Celsius for 6 hours before pressing, the juice is sediment and fermented in stainless steel for 10-15 days at 18 Celsius and further aged for up to 11 months with weekly lees stirring. No malolactic fermentation is allowed. 

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