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aroma
lemon blossom, orchard fruits, crushed stone
flavor
mineral, pomelo, white tea
food
fish & chips, fresh oysters, shrimp Scampi

 

You've heard about 2023, right? The return to a classic
California vintage. Wet spring. Good size crop. October
harvest dates. Low blood pressure. ;) The 2023 wines are
super fresh, fruit dense, and because of the extended hang
times—very aromatic. For this year's installment, we went back
to the original SoCo "recipe." All the fruit came from ranches in
the Russian River Valley / Sonoma Coast corridor. All of it was
hand picked in early to mid-October (in itself, a news story).
The fruit was crushed—in this case, foot tread, back at the
winery, and pressed out into stainless steel tanks. For the first
time in many years, we elected not to blend down any
barrel-fermented lots into SoCo—it's 100% tank fermented
and aged, and it shows the Chablis-like tension and minerality
we find only in the coldest growing years. This wine is
mouthwatering and buttressed with a low 3.4 pH. Opened
bottles should hold up for several days in the bar fridge...if
they last that long.

 

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aroma
violet, blackberry, rosemary
flavor
Italian plum, dried fig, iron
food
stuffed Cubanelles, pizza funghi, shepherd's pie

The wildfires in 2020 necessitated a shift in fruit sourcing, and the extreme drought / massive winter frost of 2021 left us with too little fruit to bottle an Indica. The 2022 was a return to form as we tapped all three original fruit sources, ramped the carbonic maceration, and bottled a wine that everyone agreed was flat out delicious. It sold out before we could get the 2023 to bottle. Fear not! The 2023 is now bottled and it, like so many of our 2023s shows the once-in-ten-years fruit quality that this vintage will soon be known for. It is a blend of three historic Mendocino ranches—some dry-farmed, 1940s Carignan from Bartolomei (Talmage) and 1960s McCutchen (Pine Mountain), plus a healthy dollop of rare 1940s Valdiguie from Lolonis (Redwood Valley). We rocked 50% whole cluster, with two tanks going through carbonic maceration. Further, we pressed the juice off the skins early and "went to barrel sweet" to highlight the crunchy freshness of this wine. The result is chillable, medium weight red—with some grip—that reminds of us Cote de Brouilly but is unabashedly Californian. 

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