The vineyard

The grapes for this vintage came from Chemeketa Community College (2.53 tons) and Red Hawk vineyards (5.37 tons) in Salem.

Wine making

Chemekata grapes were harvested 10/10/08 at  22.6 Brix, PH 3.32, TA 6.0. Red Hawk Grapes were harvest 10/10/08 at 22.4 brix, PH 3.28, TA 6.13. All juice fermented in Stainless Steel and NO malolactic Fermentation. All of the lab trials and most of the actual performance of wine making duties were performed by Kim Kramer-Krieger, the daughter of Keith and Trudy Kramer of Kramer Vineyards.

Only 195 cases of wine were produced and available for sale at the tasting room.

The wine

This wine has a Silky mid palate with hints of Apple at the start and migrating to Pear.

Food

 This vintage goes well with Spicy foods like:Thai Food, Mexican food, Jalapeno, Buffalo wings, chicken and shrimp.   It also goes really well with the spice Mace and apples in a crumbed deep dish apple pie.

Technical information:

 Alc   13.1 %    TA  .570  g/100ml,    VA  .020g/100ml,  Ph  3.28  RS: 1.5-2%