Tatomer Vandenberg Riesling 2019

This wine is a blend of multiple pickings from multiple sites in Santa Barbara County. A majority of the fruit comes from “Kick-on Ranch,” while the rest comes from other older vineyards in the area. Typically, the selection for Vandenberg are grapes with a higher percentage of Botrytis, or “Noble Rot.” The result is a richer more fruit driven wine. It has more of the stone fruit flavors often associated with Riesling, nice minerality, and some slight botrytis notes often expressed as honey, or pollen. The reason the wine is called Vandenberg is because the Kick-on Ranch is located about a mile from the Air Force Base with the same name.