White Wine

SILVER MEDAL IN THE SHENANDOAH CUP 2022 

  BRONZE MEDAL IN THE 2023 GOVERNOR'S CUP

BRONZE MEDAL IN THE 2022 AMERICAN WINE SOCIETY COMPETITION

Medium intense aroma of green fruit and citrus.  Bright and zesty.   Medium finish.  Fresh nicely balanced.  A very enjoyable wine.

This is a sweet dessert wine made from Cayuga Grapes. 

Reviewed by Julia Harding/Jancis Robinson

Estate-grown Cayuga, a New York hybrid. Fermented in barrel and aged in tank. TA 6.4 g/l, pH 3.45, RS 78 g/l.
Unusual aroma, citrus, slightly grapey, and almost minty. But that is probably because I rarely get to taste this variety. Very sweet with that minty flavour on the palate, a touch of almonds too, and very ripe citrus. Marked by the variety and not heavily marked by the oak. Sweetness well balanced by the acidity. Silky texture, rounded out by the oak, I suspect, and a grapey sweetness on the finish. (JH) 

SILVER MEDAL IN THE SHENANDOAH CUP 2022

Cayuga/Chardonnay we blended this wine with a tad of Chardonnay.  You won't find any over oaking here.

 Vivid and Fresh

BRONZE MEDAL IN THE FINGERLAKES INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2023, 

 SILVER MEDAL IN THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL WINE COMPETITION 2023

SILVER MEDAL IN THE SHENANDOAH CUP 2023

SILVER MEDAL IN THE GOVERNOR'S CUP 2024

   This is one of our best white wines to date. Think PEACHES. Enjoy this lovely, light, crisp wine, full of aromatics of peaches which follows through with lots of flavor.

Silver Medal Governor's Cup 2024

Soliel d'Ovest Estate 2022 was reviewed by world renowned wine critic Julia Harding. Below are her tasting notes.
Score 16 (superior)
Full screwcapped bottle 1,151 g. Cool fermentation and ageing in stainless steel. This is a cold-hardy hybrid bred in Minnesota in 1988 and released in 2022. This interspecific hybrid includes 45% Vitis vinifera, 28% Vitis riparia, and less than 10% each of Vitis rupestris, Vitis labrusca and Vitis aestivalis.

Intense, ripe tropical fruits on the nose with a hint of roses giving it a floral aspect – smells a little like Gewürztraminer. Ripe on the palate, too, highly scented, with a citrus freshness balancing those tropical fruit flavours and rose-petal notes. Much higher acidity than on a Gewürz, which makes this easy and refreshing. Really nicely made to bring out all the attributes of this variety to give a refreshing yet flavourful white with intensity and surprising length. I can imagine this variety might also be good in a blend as it is quite intense. Not for keeping, though. (Though perhaps I will be proved wrong.) (JH)

91 Points in the American Wine Society Awards 2023

Silver Medal in the Shenandoah Cup 2023

This is an "Orange Wine."  What is That? It's a white wine that was fermented on the skins – made like a red wine, but with white grapes. Not many vineyards make orange wines, we thought it would be fun and it turned out wonderfully!  

GOLD MEDAL- Shenandoah Cup 2024

We used a german yeast to produce a very unique profile, different than some of the exsisting Traminettes.

Your initial experience will be lilac on the nose, with some grapefruit and lemon peel on the pallet, followed by a lovely elegant finish.     A really interesting fun wine.  Lovely color and clarity.   This is a very dry white wine.