Description
100% hand-harvested, whole cluster pressed with a single press cut. This juice settles for 48 hours, fermentation begins spontaneously on wild yeast, it is pumped into barrels of varying sizes, with lees stirred once or twice as it finishes primary fermentation. Malo-lactic begins spontaneously, so that all the ferments have a unique signature. The wine is fermented and aged predominantly in 500, 600, and 3,200-liter casks where it finishes fermentation and ages sur lie for 11 months with a further 3 months in tank before bottling.
Lingua Franca
The growing season in 2023 started off with a pattern that had prevailed for the previous two years with a cold wet spring, though never with any frost or other extreme event. The cool spring weather led into a beautifully warm second week of May with temperatures in the mid 80s in the Eola-Amity Hills that promoted shoot growth. This set up for a good flowering in June. There were no real extremes of heat this summer but with overall very helpful warm to an occasional hot day throughout the season. Picking began mid- September in good weather and each block could be picked at exactly the right time.
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