Bloomer Creek, Tanzen Dame Edelzwicker Black Cap 2023

Cayuga White and Gewurztraminer

Finger Lakes, New York, USA

Bloomer Creek's Black Cap Edelzwicker is a blend of 75% Cayuga White and 25% Gewurztraminer from their Auten (Cayuga) and Morehouse Road (Cayuga, Gewurz) Vineyards. The Cayuga spends 6-7 days on skins, and the Gewurztraminer is macerated for 10 days on skins before pressing, making a light and bright skin-contact wine. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. VEGAN.

Kim Engle and Debra Bermingham of Bloomer Creek began purchasing land and planting grapes in the early 1980's, eventually establishing their estate Bloomer Creek Vineyard in 1999 from 10 acres with two different vineyard designations - Auten Vineyard and Morehouse Road - planted on the west side of Cayuga Lake. In 2012, Barrow Vineyard was added to Bloomer Creek when Kim and Debra purchased an abandoned vineyard site on the east side of Seneca Lake, one mile from their production cellar in Hector, NY.

The 'Bloomers' meticulously farm their sites using organic methods - employing no herbicides or irrigation in the vineyard. The fruit is hand-harvested, and only native yeasts are used for fermentation, often utilizing whole clusters, extended lees aging, and allowing fermentations to progress at their own rate without using temperature control.

Bloomer Creek has always carved their own path and the results are wonderful. Their wines are incredibly distinctive, age-worthy and expressive of the place and time in which they were produced. That place is the Finger Lakes, and Bloomer Creek may be the single most unique, and compelling voice in town. 2023 was the last vintage from Bloomer Creek, as they recently retired! This is some of the last remaining wine available from them.