Trestle 31 · Riesling · 2022
2022 Trestle 31 Riesling, Finger Lakes
A place on the list
Nova Cadamatre MW's dry Finger Lakes Riesling. Citrus, pear, a gentle minerality, cool-climate acid. A salmon wine. The 91-point Wine-Searcher aggregate on the 2022 is the published check — we do not invent a second number.
Winery SRP $22 per bottle
One-case minimum unless a bulk break is shown at checkout. Partner price is the JS Selections offer, not a required resale price.
Why this bottle belongs on the list
Two selling points.
Then the market.
Riesling is why you bother with the lakes.
Nova and Brian built Trestle 31 as a Riesling house that also makes Chardonnay and Franc. The dry Riesling is the argument: herbal and citrus, barrel-fermented acacia on later vintages, always acid, never flabby.
91 Wine-Searcher on this vintage.
Wine Check returned a 91 aggregate and a $32.51–$33.87 U.S. range on the 2022. Partner pricing sits under that. We do not invent scores when the check is clean.
Professional scores
What the press wrote on this vintage.
Named critic scores on this vintage. These are press ratings, not the Wine-Searcher aggregate.
The buyer's perspective
What the guest
hears first.
Staff line: Nova Cadamatre MW, Finger Lakes Riesling, dry. Pour it with salmon. Case-first.
Winemaker's corner
First U.S. woman winemaker to earn Master of Wine · Finger Lakes
Nova
Cadamatre MW
Nova and Brian Cadamatre met in 2000. Brian's line was, we should start a vineyard — my family in Italy did it, it cannot be that hard. After 15 years of planning they established a vineyard in the Finger Lakes and a tasting room in downtown Geneva, New York.
The name Trestle 31 comes from the railroad trestle that dominates the view from the top of the vineyard on Seneca Lake, and from tract 31 on the deed. Nova's mother, Linda Williams McCune, drew the label. Nova took Viticulture at Cornell, then California, then the MW in 2017 — the first American female winemaker to do it.
She still splits Napa and the Finger Lakes. The 2022s are the current JS Selections offer: Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Riesling, and Demi-Sec. Family estate. Lakes, not a Napa masquerade.
Finger Lakes Riesling
Citrus.
Pear.
Mineral.
Dry.
The Finger Lakes remain one of the few American places where dry Riesling is a serious list wine, not a leftover from the 1980s.
Trestle's dry Riesling is citrus and orchard fruit against a mineral line and cool-climate acid. Not residual-sugar theater. The Demi-Sec is the other listing.
Wine-Searcher U.S. listings on the 2022 showed a 91 aggregate. Partner case pricing is the JS Selections offer, not a required resale price.
2022 in the glass
Citrus.
Pear.
A mineral line.
Distinct citrus, pear, a gentle minerality, and the acid that makes Finger Lakes Riesling a salmon wine. Dry. Not the Demi-Sec. Serve cold, not frozen. This is the list white for a fish course that has to stay interesting.
Menu and service
Built for a serious table.
- Pan-roasted salmon
- Trout, brown butter
- Pork with stone fruit
Serve in a proper stem. Taste on opening and give the wine air if the structure asks for it.
Staff pairing clip
$513 vs $21 Salmon | Epicurious
The tableside introduction
“Trestle 31 dry Riesling, Nova Cadamatre MW, Finger Lakes. 91 on Wine-Searcher. Pour it with salmon.”
Order the case
Dry Riesling from the lakes.
Nova Cadamatre MW. Case-first. The Demi-Sec is the other listing.
One-case minimum unless a bulk break is shown at checkout. Partner price is the JS Selections offer, not a required resale price.
