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    • Columbia River Gorge Underwood WA

2010 Columbia Gorge Gruner Veltner

Underwood WA

Brix: 20.3

pH: 3.37

TA: 0.77 g/100ml

Grape Code: 10CGGRV / Freezer Code: 1021

Relatively clean fruit, very nice aromas and flavor, needs a bit of Hawiian sunshine as all great Austrian Gruener. Believe this will make very nice wine.

Harvested on 11/6/10

Availability: Frozen 5.25 gallon pails in Richmond CA

2009 Columbia Gorge Gruner Veltner

Underwood WA

Brix: 23.2

pH: 3.21

TA: 0.53 g/100ml

Grape Code: 09CGGRV / Freezer Code: 916

No SO2 added

Harvested on 10/17/09

Availability: Sold Out

2008 Columbia Gorge Gruner Veltner

Underwood WA

Brix: 20.1

pH: 3.13

TA: 0.67 g/100ml

Grape Code: 08CGGRV / Freezer Code: 717

Harvested on 10/25/08

Yeast Assimilable Nitrogen (YAN): 141 mg / L

Malic Acid: 1.52 g / L

Availability: Sold Out

2008 Harvest Report:Gruner Veltner: Gruner is a brand new grape for Brehm Vineyards. I would treat it like Riesling or Sauvignon Blanc. Paul Gregutt of Wine Enthusiast Magazine wrote of the grapes from this same vineyard, '…it promises good-maybe great - things to come. Sleek and stony, the wine epitomizes the racy, slightly grassy, slightly peppery quality of classic Austrian Grüner, with a NW twist-a certain brilliant intensity to the fruit that reflects this northern latitude. Clearly the best Grüner from Oregon or Washington to date.' The whites of the Columbia Gorge have a vibrancy rarely found anywhere else. No SO2 was added at the press, only add after fermentation.

Recommended Yeast: DGI 228; Uvaferm SVG; R2; R-HST