Leaning Post, The Geek Riesling 2018

This is the fifth vintage of Geek Riesling and as the years go by the tank gets bigger but the production volume stays about the same. Hand-picked and hand sorted grapes were gently whole-cluster pressed. Treated the same as our Wismer Riesling for the first two thirds of fermentation, we draw off a portion of the wine when we stop the fermentation for our Riesling and allow the Geek to ferment to dryness in a separate tank. As fermentations from other white-wines (Riesling, Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blanc) were completed, the lees from those fermentations were added to this wine. All the lees from the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 vintages of this wine were added July 29, 2019.  Then after 22 months on lees, the wine was racked and bottled unfined and unfiltered on September 9^th, 2020.

A leaning post is what you find at the beginning of a row of grapes, anchoring the wires that are the frame-work for growing grapevines. It is the beginning of an obsession to translate a time and place into liquid. Leaning Post wines take you to that beginning by finding small, unique plots of land in Niagara and putting them in bottle. Because after stripping away all the fancy buildings and high-tech equipment you are left with a place on this earth that grows wine unlike any other. When you taste that in a glass you just know it.