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| Tollini | Redwood Valley |
Mendocino |
tangerine peel, rose petals, watermelon rind
fraises des bois, lime juice, ginger root
pressed sandwiches, fish tacos, quiche
VINIFICATION
the fruit was hand harvested and the berries purposely “broken” before being whole cluster pressed to a stainless steel tank. the wine was fermented cool and finished bone dry. the lees were stirred during a long, slow malolactic fermentation. a gentle filtration was done prior to bottling.
SITE
from a mid-century planting of dry-farmed, head-pruned carignan located in mendocino's redwood valley. a severe diurnal shift supports gradual and often late ripening. the soil is red clay strewn with fist sized rocks. the combination of vine age, an extended growing season, and tougher soil conspire to produce wine of intrigue.
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8.4 g/l |
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this wine marks the inaugural offering from our new winemaker, john raytek. we elected to take the rose program in a new direction, believing that the world's best examples are pressed rather than bled. we picked this 70-year old, dry-farmed, organic carignan very early and fermented it in 100% stainless steel. the resulting wine, which goes by the moniker "strawberry diesel," is bristling with acidity. it hints at red fruit and white flowers and crushed stones, but at barely 12% alc., it mostly just begs to be gulped.
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| now through 2014 |
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