Edelzwicker

Florèz Wines
Edelzwicker

Edelzwicker

Florèz Wines
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2022
Santa Cruz Mountains, California, USA
Grapes: 42% Pinot Gris, 33% Gewurztraminer, & 25% Riesling
A punchy nose of stonefruit, peach, and bright lemon lime meet a refreshing and zesty palate.
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WINE DETAILS

Winemaker’s Note: “My inspiration for this wine stems from the fond memories of traveling in Strasbourg, France and finding an ‘Edelzwicker’ in nearly every cafe. Traditionally served in petite green stemmed goblets — an Edelzwicker is an Alsatian blend (zwicker) composed of noble (edel) varieties. Most often comprised of Riesling, Muscat, Pinot Gris and/or Gewurztraminer, Sylvaner, Chasselas and Pinot Blanc.

My second wave of inspiration comes from my time spent in the Anderson valley of California. Anderson valley has a long history of growing Alsatian varietals. Unfortunately, due to market pressures and the value of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, many growers have ripped out or grafted their Alsatian varieties. With values of often more than double you can’t entirely blame them, but they sort of lost something unique. What was once the yearly ‘Alsatian White Wine Festival’ is now just the ‘White Wine Festival’ dominated by Chardonnay.”

Florèz Wines

Florèz Wines was founded by James Jelks in 2017. Born in Santa Cruz and raised in Davis California Jelks is a west coast kid. After a decade of wine fascination, attending the UC Davis E&V program, and working worldwide Jelks set his sights on producing wines in Santa Cruz county.

Here at florèz wines we embrace old world technique and sensibility. Everything begins with the vineyards and the best quality grapes.

Some of the vineyards we are farming ourselves using organic practices, and dry farming management. To supplement we source fruit from organically and sustainably farmed vineyards. We work to stay as local as possible to the Santa Cruz area.

We follow through with astute craftsmanship utilizing native yeasts, eschewing additives, racking well but never filtering, a carefully monitored élevage without sulfur and sur lie, and bottling with minimal effective sulfur or less.

Always in pursuit of improvement we hope to deliver wines of pleasure and ease on the body.

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