Banyan 2007 Riesling

Quick Overview

An austere balance of acidity, fruit and minerality. Citrus, peach and spice flavors with a flinty mineral finish and texture. Over time some of these floral components to give away to more petrol-type characteristics.

Banyan 2007 Riesling
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Product Description

This Riesling comes from the 30+ year old vines of The Big Pond on the Northern end of the Santa Lucia Highlands. The weathered soils and coastal hillsides of the famed Santa Lucia Highlands create cool weather, intense flavors, and the possibility for minerality in a California wine, all components that Banyan considers critical to the success of a Riesling.

The grapes are cherry picked row by row, vine by vine, and cluster by cluster to insure ripeness and acidity, then whole-cluster press and ferment partially in wood and partially in stainless steel. When the fermentation is complete, the entire lot is aged sur lies in neutral barrels with no racking until bottling.

Additional Information

Food Pairings	Vietnamese Chicken Salad Baked Ham Proscuitto with summer fruits and melons Fontina and Gorgonzola cheese
Varietal	Other Whites
Winemaker Profile	Kenny Likitprakong The Hobo Wine Company is the brainchild, side job, menace to the wine industry, hedged bet, cash strain, mental anguish, late night musing, bruised hands, dirty t-shirts, and constant companion of Kenny Likitprakong. Despite knowing better, he started his own label in 2002 with the simple idea to have some good fun. Here is what he has to say about his company Hobo Wines: The question always comes up, Why Hobo? A friend in the wine industry once told me that he figured the hobo name came from the fact that I was about the dirtiest winemaker he knew. The part about me being the dirtiest winemaker might be true, but it is not where the name came from. It's partly a trip I'm on about a dead American era and partly about the fact that I don't own a winery or any vineyards. If you are looking for estate bottled wines, you have come to the wrong place. Hobo is my tribute and homage to a freedom and an era that I grew up romanticizing. I think I spent a lot of my late teens and early twenties chasing the rambling ways of the American Hobo. When I was seventeen I started traveling around, listening to Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen and the likes, seeing the different parts of the country and other countries, writing in journals and taking photos and didn't really stop until I was twenty-three or twenty-four. As the experiences racked up, I found out that the hoboes had disappeared. The hobo had become a relic in the story of our expanding country. Like all good heroes, I figured they deserved their place in history and on wine bottles. Instead of becoming a hobo, I became a Hobo Winemaker. Of the two ways to make wine, with and without money, the first should probably be the only, but a few of us slip through the cracks and do it on the skinny. No winery, no vineyards, no truck, no warehouse, no employees, nothing. There are advantages. Making small lots comes naturally, the flexability to pick and choose grape type, vineyard, appellation, and winery on an ongoing basis, and a larger circle of people involved which means more ideas and expertise.
Case Price	Buy 6 for $ 16.15 each -- 5% discount Buy 12 for $ 15.30 each -- 10% discount Mix and match for quantity discount