Clear and aromatic, "Gewurztraminer" from Urban Winery
Brand: Windchaser
Product: Gewurztraminer
Vintage: 2019
Color: White
Origin: California / Mendocino
AVA: Anderson Valley
Capacity: 750ml
Grape variety: 100% Gewurztraminer
TASTING
Winemaker Dave's focus is on producing a clean, aromatic Gewurztraminer.
COMMENT
Wind Chaser is a family-run urban winery founded in 2015 in the warehouse district of Berkeley, California. Grapes are sourced primarily in El Dorado and Mendocino, California. The winemaker keeps intervention to a minimum, making use of natural yeast, and producing small quantities of wines using brewing methods that bring out the potential of each grape, such as barrel fermentation and whole-cluster fermentation. The use of SO2 is also kept to a minimum. A variety of wines are being released, from classic, clean-tasting to funkalicious (a portmanteau of funky and delicious).
The winery's name "Wind Chaser" comes from the fact that Dave, a surfing enthusiast, has traveled around the world for many years in pursuit of the wind.
WINEMAKING
Anderson Valley grapes. Finished unfined and unfiltered.