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Fulkerson Winery Fulkerson Wine Cellars LLC 4/10/2017 Dundee, NY 14837-8828 2017 Diamond Winemaking Estate Grown and Bottled; Finger Lakes AVA Notes • • • Our “Juicy Sweet” line is a set optimal sweetness to best of premium sweet wines that express the character of each Bottling Date: 3/20/2018 represent the best that a sweet grape. Cases Bottled: 499 (750&1500ml) wine can offer. During the Fermentation: Stainless Steel fermentation process, Yeast: Vivace Alcohol by Volume: 8.8% temperature is monitored constantly to allow us the Labeled alcohol: Table Wine ability to control and to stop Brix at Harvest: 20 the fermentation at the Residual Sugar: 6% IRF scale: Medium Sweet “This native variety has lovely aromas of honeyed pear TA (Titratable Acidity): 8.0g/l pH: 3.27 and fresh green grapes. The taste is sweet and fruity Age ability: 1-2 years. Our Juicy with a refreshing apple finish. Cheese and fruit are great Sweet Series is produced with companions for this bright flavored wine. Our Juicy immediate consumption in Sweet series is fermented in such a way to preserve the mind. natural sugar and flavors.” Serving Temperature: 55°-60°F Tasting Notes: Pineapple and Viticultural Notes mango with a fresh grape finish Grape: Diamond Pairing Suggestions: Cheeses, Harvest Date: Sept. 13, 2017 fresh fruit, fruit dessert and pie. Diamond, or “Moor’s fresher and less “Foxy” Diamond” is a Concord x Iona tasting. Wet end of year Hybrid obtained around 1870 weather can cause berries to in Brighton New York. This crack, so harvest date can be Vitis labrusca x Vitis vinifera difficult to control. The vine is hybrid is an exceptionally moderately vigorous and high quality grape making tolerant of -20°F winter wines that are similar to wines temperatures. As of 2006, only made from Niagara, but are 95 acres were planted in NY. .

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