{"title":"Forge Cellars","description":"\u003cp\u003eForge Cellars was founded by Louis Barruol from the Rhône's Château de St.-Cosme and wine professional Richard Rainey, debuting in 2011. They focus on bone-dry Riesling and cool-climate Pinot Noir from Seneca Lake's southeastern shore, exploring terroir with Rhône-trained precision. These are Finger Lakes wines that prove the region deserves respect.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"forge-cellars-riesling-freese-vineyard-seneca-lake-2023-750ml","title":"Forge Cellars, Riesling Freese Vineyard Seneca Lake, 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorld-class Riesling from the Finger Lakes. Founded in 2011 by a French winemaker from a 14-generation Rhône family, Forge Cellars has become a beacon for American Riesling. This single-vineyard wine from Seneca Lake's southeastern shore showcases tropical fruit, citrus, and minerality from shale-rich soils. Dry, precise, and age-worthy. A must for anyone curious about New York wine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45250146336825,"sku":"NYC-1-WBW-`30335880`-121225-2","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Forge-Cellars-Riesling-Freese-Vineyard-Seneca-Lake-2023-White-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_20976f9e.jpg?v=1768529624"},{"product_id":"forge-cellars-willow-dry-riesling-2022-750ml","title":"Forge Cellars, Willow Dry Riesling, 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003eA single-vineyard snapshot from one of Forge's most northerly Seneca Lake sites. Forge Cellars is the Finger Lakes project of Louis Barruol — the Rhône vigneron behind Château de Saint Cosme in Gigondas — together with Justin Boyette and Richard Rainey. Since debuting in 2011 they have become the reference point for bone-dry, terroir-driven Riesling on Seneca's east side, working with a dozen-plus specific vineyards over clay, limestone, and shale. The Willow Vineyard sits at the cooler northern end, lending an exuberance and lift you do not always find further south. With three additional years in bottle, the 2022 has begun to integrate that nervy youthful citrus into something more savory and complex — still mineral-driven and bone-dry, but with a deeper register opening underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45728343883833,"sku":"NYC-1-WBW-`30334140`-042026-2","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Forge-Cellars-Willow-Dry-Riesling-2022-White-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1778251651"},{"product_id":"forge-cellars-break-neck-creek-riesling-2023-750ml","title":"Forge Cellars, Break Neck Creek Riesling, 2023","description":"\u003cp\u003eA single-vineyard Riesling from one of the Finger Lakes' most thoughtful houses. Forge Cellars was launched in 2011 by Rhône winemaker Louis Barruol (of Château de Saint Cosme in Gigondas) with Finger Lakes pros Justin Boyette and Richard Rainey, and quickly became the benchmark for bone-dry, site-driven Riesling on Seneca Lake's southeastern shore. Break Neck Creek is a vineyard the team has worked with for years and treats almost like a varietal grand cru — Riesling planted on Lansing and Conesus gravelly silt loam on Seneca Lake's east side. The 2023 is generous and zesty, loaded with ripe tangerine and stone fruit but tightened by the briny, saline twang that has become Forge's signature. Bone-dry, medium-bodied, and seriously delicious now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45728343916601,"sku":"NYC-1-WBW-`30338908`-042026-3","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Forge-Cellars-Break-Neck-Creek-Riesling-2023-White-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1778251652"},{"product_id":"forge-cellars-willow-cabernet-franc-2024-750ml","title":"Forge Cellars, Willow Cabernet Franc, 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eCabernet Franc with a Finger Lakes accent — cool, peppery, alive. Forge Cellars is best known for serious Riesling, but Louis Barruol (the Rhône hand behind Château 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, almost Loire-leaning style with juicy acidity and gentle tannins. The 2024 is the latest in a string of wines that have shown remarkable poise across very different growing seasons — pure varietal Cab Franc, lightly handled in the cellar, ready to drink chilled-down on the porch or alongside a real dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45728343949369,"sku":"NYC-1-WBW-`30339870`-042026-4","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Forge-Cellars-Willow-Cabernet-Franc-2024-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1778251653"},{"product_id":"forge-cellars-bellows-estate-cabernet-franc-2024-750ml","title":"Forge Cellars, Bellows Estate Cabernet Franc, 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe estate flagship for Forge's growing red program. Forge Cellars was founded in 2011 by Rhône vigneron Louis Barruol (Château de Saint Cosme in Gigondas) with Justin Boyette and Richard Rainey, and built its reputation on bone-dry, single-vineyard Riesling from Seneca Lake's southeastern shore. Bellows is the team's home estate vineyard, and in many vintages it produces their most concentrated, ageworthy Cabernet Franc — a serious cool-climate red with the savory backbone the variety asks for. The 2024 is built for the long haul: pure Cab Franc, gently extracted, with the variety's signature herbal lift wrapped around a darker, more brooding fruit profile than the Willow bottling. Give it a half-hour in a carafe or set a few bottles aside for the next several years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45728344211513,"sku":"NYC-1-WBW-`30340476`-042026-5","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Forge-Cellars-Bellows-Estate-Cabernet-Franc-2024-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1778251654"},{"product_id":"forge-cellars-railroad-vineyard-cabernet-franc-2024-750ml","title":"Forge Cellars, Railroad Vineyard Cabernet Franc, 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eForge Cellars is the Finger Lakes project from Louis Barruol (of Saint Cosme in Gigondas), Justin Boyette, and Richard Rainey — a Seneca Lake operation focused with monastic intensity on Riesling, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Franc. Railroad Vineyard sits on the east side of the lake at 720 feet, planted in the early '90s on dense, gravelly loam, the rows still delineated by the old Lehigh Valley Railroad ties. The 2024 Cab Franc opens with floral lift, red raspberry, and tea-like herbal notes, then turns focused and mineral on the palate — precise blackcurrant and leaf, gentle extraction, beautiful tension. A medium-bodied, stony, cool-climate Cab Franc that argues for the Finger Lakes as one of the best Cab Franc terroirs in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45737126002745,"sku":"NYC-WBW-`30339869`-042226-2","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Forge-Cellars-Railroad-Vineyard-Cabernet-Franc-2024-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1778251667"},{"product_id":"forge-cellars-bellow-estate-pinot-noir-2024-750ml","title":"Forge Cellars, Bellow Estate Pinot Noir, 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eBellows is the heart of Forge Cellars — the estate vineyard on the east side of Seneca Lake, densely planted and farmed biointensively to Riesling and Pinot Noir on Conesus and Lansing silt loam over shale. Production is still small (279 cases) and the wine is hand-harvested, hand-sorted, and spontaneously fermented in wooden vat at a restrained 12.5% alcohol. The result is a Finger Lakes Pinot Noir that channels its Burgundian inspiration without copying it: supple-framed, silken, finely perfumed with red cherry and rose, threaded with shale-driven salinity. Louis Barruol and the Forge team have quietly made the case that Seneca Lake deserves to be on any serious cool-climate Pinot conversation. This is the wine that proves it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winebow [WBW]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45737126068281,"sku":"NYC-WBW-`30340475`-042226-3","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Forge-Cellars-Bellow-Estate-Pinot-Noir-2024-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1778251668"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/forge-cellars.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}