a wine that challenges expectations of what the region can produce
and commitment to restrained
delivered wines of concentration
The 2024 Pinot Gris is the house template — ripe orchard fruit and quince held together with savory smoke and the slow
with layered texture and complexity
Forge Cellars, Willow Cabernet Franc, 2024 so121224 corbineau offer a wine that challenges expectationsCabernet Franc with a Finger Lakes accent cool, peppery, alive. Forge Cellars is best known for serious Riesling, but Louis Barruol (the Rhne hand behind Chteau de Saint Cosme), Justin Boyette, and Richard Rainey have quietly built one of New York State's most compelling Cab Franc programs alongside it. Willow is the same northernmost Seneca Lake vineyard that gives them such bright, exuberant Riesling; for the reds it yields a fragrant, savory,