The Finger Lakes region is south of Lake Ontario, in central New York. The glacier-sculpted lakes, great microclimates and talented winemakers make a wide variety of vitis vinifera wines, but the FLX is best known for its Rieslings.
Bruce and David Murray purchased their farm in 2007 and two years later planted grapevines where none had grown before. The Boundary Breaks estate sits in the area along the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, an area known as the Banana Belt, due to the milder weather resulting from the depth of the lake and the prevailing winds. Under the name of Boundary Breaks, the Murray's produce only Riesling grapes and wines.
The 2013 Boundary Breaks Dry Riesling #239 utilizes the Geisenheim #239 clone of the Riesling grape, estate-grown on the east side of Seneca Lake and picked first in the season for higher acidity. It has been collecting accolades since the first vintage was released last year. Steel fermentation is the norm in the Finger Lakes. This wine shows "dry" on the IRF scale, with a scant 0.9% residual sugar and a low alcohol level of only 11.9%.
The wine is pale in the glass, with just a hint of green. Its nose is bursting with fruit and earth. Apricots and peaches are heavily influenced by the sense of wet rocks and the fragrance of the soil. Flavors hold the line in the same way, with apricot, quince and peach acting as a serving platter for those earthy mineral notes.
On the Twitter stream, during a virtual tasting event, @ArtPredator was looking to put this Riesling with some food: “notes of stone fruit pair well with cranberry pecan chicken salad pita n beach breaks” while @WineHarlots tweeted, “Boundary issues? You'll be laying down the law to get your share of @BndryBrx Riesling.” You won't need a surveyor to find the flavor inside the bottle, either.
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