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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ptaylor2112 on 12/27/2022 & rated 87 points: I liked this sparkler as an aperitif. It did not play as well with the charcuterie as I would have hoped, but it was just fine on its own. (284 views) | | | Tasted by Wine in the Woods with Beth on 12/20/2020: Fantastic for Sunday brunch along with quiche (341 views) | | | Tasted by le gris on 1/1/2016 & rated 88 points: A fine dry sparkling pinot grigio a l'Italiene proseco. Lively bottle with fine bubbles, excellent for an apertif. (1806 views) | | | Tasted by ascallis on 7/5/2015 & rated 89 points: Fantastic - dry, great mouthfeel, keeps its character with a variety of foods. Great buy for the price point! (1323 views) | | | Tasted by khmark7 on 5/30/2015: Good aromas and very tasty (1219 views) |
| 2 Lads Producer website
2 Lads Winery is a 10,500 square foot facility located on 58 acres on the Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City, Michigan. We currently have 23 acres of established vineyards in three separate blocks that were planted in 1999, 2001 and 2008. We specialize in cool climate red and sparkling wines and have small runs of white wines to round out the lot. Sustainably farming our land is paramount to the health of our soil, vines and grapes at 2 Lads Winery. You get what you give!
Our multi-level facility uses gravity-flow and gentle-handling techniques to transport the juice and wine throughout processing, racking and aging. The gravity-flow process saves energy, reduces noise, and is a far more gentle way to process the juice and wine than classic winemaking methods. When you run wine or juice through a pump or filter, you can break up many of the desirable compounds that are forming in the wine. The aromatics, flavors and colors are all delicate components in wine and need to be fostered and encouraged to build into the complex structure of a young wine. When you manipulate and handle wine too much or too roughly, you can lose little pieces of all three of these components. Come taste the difference.
Source: About 2 Lads WineryPinot Grigio Varietal character (Appellation America) This is not Pinot Grigio! Prosecco is made from Glera!USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.Michigan Michigan Wines (Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council)Old Mission Peninsulaa note from John Trombley, in part borrowed from a comment on Left Foot Charley Pinot Gris:
The general central region of the Old Mission Peninsula was earliest farmed (late 1970s) and is now intensely farmed for grapes since the first V. Vinifera plantation in this quite contoured area, perhaps the most contoured on the peninsula. Nearby are Tale Feathers vineyard, the home vineyards of Chateau Grand Traverse, the Shangri La, Too vineyard, the Prairie School vineyard, the Manigold vineyard of Gewurztraminer fame, and so forth; this is not exhaustive. For the whites, Riesling and the Pinots are predominant, in the region; for the reds, Pinot Noir, Gamay, and Dornfelder are found. We may guess the soils: reef and mostly igneous sands from the Canadian Shield in the form of glacial till; various clays, mostly alkaline; and some humus from Recent forestation and human use. These are almost universal in varying amounts here. The vineyards here are mostly West-facing, flowing down from Center Road M-37 and the scenic outlook at the top of the center ridge down to the water line, with secondary elevations and depressions. (Early on it was somewhat recontoured to change ground-water issues that might have been problematic just west of the outlook.)
In general, this means the regional vineyards are very fine for ripening grapes but are prone to weather-related accidents: spring frosts and hail, and as elsewhere, requite strict attention to vineyard hygiene and canopy management in the intense summer sun and fog/rain that tend to alternate here. The wines are bright, energetic in the citruc range, somewhat rustic, and resinous, with best Pekoe and Pu'er tea notes that remind one of opening a ream of pine wood -based Kraft paper. This may be the signature nose and palate (terroir) of the Up-North (northern Lower Peninsula) white wines. |
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