2022 Usonia Standing Stone Farms Riesling Finger Lakes, USA Simon Bize BLACK is singularly focused on

BLACK is singularly focused on this sole botanical and requires eighteen months to fully develop its depth of flavor—after a nine-month spirit maceration

Then pressed to a tank

typically with a portion of whole clusters (around 50% in recent vintages) and about 15 days on skins

Robert at 10 hectares

20% Dolcetto

2022 Usonia Standing Stone Farms Riesling Finger Lakes, USA Simon Bize BLACK is singularly focused onBiodynamic. 100% Riesling. Standing Stone Farms on the east side of Seneca Lake, planted in 2006 on Honeoye silt loam. Biodynamically farmed by the team at Hermann J. Wiemer. Grapes were hand harvested on October 2. Whole cluster pressed, settled and spontaneously fermented entirely in stainless steel. Ten month fermentation, full malolactic. Sulfured after fermentation and at bottling. Lightly filtered and bottled August 2023.