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AROMA: Blueberry compote, dried rosemary, iron
FLAVOR: Plum skin, granite, black raspberry
FOOD PAIRINGS: BBQ spare ribs, salsiccia pizza, grilled flank steak
VINIFICATION: Fruit was hand-harvested in mid-October. Fermentation in a mixed open top tanks with regular pumpovers and T-bins under a "submerged cap." All lots aged separately in neutral oak for 7 months before blending and bottling.
From two historic Mendocino County vineyards, one with 70 year-old, dry farmed Carignan (98%), the other with 50 year-old Valdiguie (7%) - organically farmed on clay soils in a cool, upland valley.