2023 Pet Nat of Chardonnay

This is a story about making lemonade from lemons. Or...Pet
Nat from underripe grapes. During a midnight pick at the
peak of harvest, a worn down crew picked the wrong block
of Chardonnay from one of our sources in the RRV. They
were supposed to pick our block of Clone 4, sitting at 22
brix. They errantly picked a neighboring block of Wente
Clone lagging behind at 19 brix. Too lean even by LIOCO
standards. What to do? Turn it into Pet-Nat. We raised this
bright, lemon-driven wine in old barrels until it was nearly dry,
then transferred it with all the fine lees into champagne glass
in early December. We disgorged it in March of 2024 and
were delighted to find a very dry, very effervescent white
wine. So many Pet Nats are funky or murky or both. This is
neither. This is LIOCO Pet Nat. And it will likely be gone by
the time you finishing reading th...

AROMA
yellow pear, sake, millet
FLAVOR
dragon fruit, fennel bulb, seaweed
FOOD PAIRINGS
caviar bumps, shrimp cocktail