22yr old, north facing vines on red volcanic soil. own rooted and never irrigated. MV6 & 114 clone.

This vineyard site is beautiful but when I found it the vineyard itself was not. Overgrown with blackberries and vines dying back from trunk disease, It’s been a fight to get it back into shape to say the least.

The fruit for this wine was destemmed into a tank on skins for a few weeks, gently punched down by hand every couple of days and pressed into three old puncheons for aging. Deeper and darker than last years. more rounded and fuller bodied. But bright with great acidity, all cherries and earth. 

Winemaker Notes