Forge Riesling ‘Wagner Caywood East’ 2022

Forge Riesling ‘Wagner Caywood East’ 2022 - Seneca Lake , NY
$32  Soul Wine Price $27.20

Wagner Caywood East is a long, lean, windswept site with an extreme slope and bands of varied soils. The common thread among vintages from this site is a liveliness within the wine, an energy that the French would call nervosité.

This is the perfect example of how terroir transcends the varietal, and how Riesling can be used as a conduit of site expression. Winemaking practices among our Rieslings are exactly the same from site to site, yet there are stark differences between a wine like Wagner Caywood East and its slightly southern neighbor, Willow. Here, you have one site (WCE) with a much greater incline and more gravelly, shale-dominated composition, which tends to yield wines with a bit of tension and mineral focus, and another site (Willow) that sits on a softer grade with more moderating climatic factors from the lake, and finer sandy soils, which gives lift and grace, like a pirouette on the palate.

East side Seneca Lake - Lodi

Soils: Lansing and Conesus gravelly silt loam on shale

Harvest Date: Oct. 18

Spontaneous fermentation in neutral barrel

Residual Sugar: 0.21% (2.1 g/L)

Alcohol: 12.5% by vol.

Production: 384 cases