Fort Berens Estate Winery - Riesling 2024

Fort Berens Estate Winery - Riesling 2024Fort Berens Estate Winery is the culmination of a dream by Rolf de Bruin and Heleen Pannekoek that started in 2005 and took shape with their move with their family to Lilooet, British Columbia in 2009. Partnering with a team of BC investors, they were able to buy a 65 acre property, build a winery, and develop Fort Berens into what it is today. The soils at Fort Berens are a result of deposits made during the last ice age from about 100,000 years ago

Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo

and a fruitier

which greatly reduces yields and increases the quality of the bunches

barrel-fermented Eurythmie

Winemaking at this domaine is a mixture of traditional and modern approaches

farmed sustainably

the basic tenets of which are very similar to those practised by subsistence farmers throughout human history but that have been mainly abandoned in mainstream agriculture

harvesting and sorting is one by hand

originally grown in Mesopotamia

All of the grapes are foot trodden in granite lagares situated on the property

Each grape variety is treated in such a way that it is allowed to fully express itself

the 2013 and 2015 New Zealand Royal Easter Show Wine Awards in addition to the 2014 New Zealand International Wine Show