2020 BOE "Broken Land" Orange Wine

Tasting Notes

BOE’s “Broken Land” (which is the English translation of ‘Breuckelen’, the original Dutch name of Brooklyn) is a distinctive wine made in a classic Italian/Slovenian style. This wine offers a heady palate of orange zest, nuts, lychee, apricot pit, rose, and jasmine tea, all changing in the glass as you drink it. On-skin maceration imparts a deep golden color and mesmerizing flavors. Its complex structure and earthy tannin benefit from decanting and being served slightly warmer than average for a standard chilled white. This wine pairs beautifully with pork, robust fish, squash, pasta with white sauce, melon with figs and prosciutto, roasted vegetables, or medium-bodied cheeses.

Process

"Broken Land" is produced in small batches.  The grapes are destemmed and crushed, then fermented in bins with their skins and seeds. After fermentation, the new wine was macerated on the skins for another five days before pressing, deepening the liquid's amber coloring. Pinot Gris juice was fermented on Gewurztraminer grape skins and then blended with Sauvignon Blanc at the end of fermentation. The wine was then transferred to neutral oak barrels for maturation.  Bottling occurred after 9 months in the barrel.

Varietals

Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer, Sauvignon Blanc 

Artist

Simone Ver Eecke, ‘M-16 Gundshot Painting 1’, © 2009