Usonia, Cayuga Cayuga 2024
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$32.00
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100% Cayuga
Finger Lakes, NY, USA
A mineral, crunchy, and hyper refreshing vintage of Cayuga White from Plane’s Block. From low-yielding vines over a half-century old, this stuff is simultaneously delicious and serious!
A hybrid variety developed by Cornell University in 1945. This bottling is taken from the first commercial Cayuga planting in the Finger Lakes, located on the west side of Cayuga Lake on silty loam soils. Hand-harvested, whole-cluster pressed; fermented in fiberglass tank. Close to a year long fermentation. Unfined, unfiltered, just a touch of SO2 added. VEGAN.
Usonia was established by Alex Perez and Julia Alverez-Perez in 2020 to express a philosophy of Finger Lakes wine beyond the endless parades of rieslings and Adirondack chairs that define their region. The two started as sommeliers in the Bay Area, then went to work in Adelaide Hills and Burgenland, before settling in Ovid, NY. Frank Lloyd Wright created the term "Usonia" to refer to his vision of a fully democratic American landscape. Usonia prefers to create single vineyard/single grape bottlings when possible. They have recently planted their home vineyard, New Suns, which is an 8.5 acre plot surrounded by forest.