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crushed blueberries, bay leaf, pencil lead
boysenberry, dried strawberry, cassis
neapolitan pizza, knife & fork burger, carnitas
VINIFICATION
a blend of old-vine carignan (85%), grenache (9%), and petite
sirah (6%). the fruit was hand harvested, sorted and then
fermented in stainless steel tanks using wild yeasts. malolactic
fermentation occurred naturally and finished completely. the
wine remained in neutral oak on fine-lees for 10-months.
SITE
a selection of bench land vineyards in mendocino’s redwood
valley compose this wine. this cool, upland valley supports
gradual (and often late) ripening. the fruit comes from predominately
old-vines which are dry-farmed and head-pruned. the soil
is red clay strewn with fist sized rocks. this “heritage blend” of
rapidly vanishing california grape varieties harkens back to the
golden state’s earliest winemaking efforts.
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a few months ago our winemaker john raytek and i took our
wives to see folk singer gillian welch. she and her husband
(who lays it down on guitar) are immensely talented singer/song
writers. after she played one particularly heart-melting number,
she apologized for the sound of her guitar which she qualified as
"old-timey." i'm not exactly certain what she meant by that but i
think she was referring to what guitar music must have sounded
like 100-years ago before all the fancy amplifications and
electronic pick-ups. well, we kind of think of indica as an
"old-timey" wine. it's the kind of wine we imagine california's
wine pioneers made and drank before the fancy french varietals
arrived on the scene. back in these early days, there were other
grapes in the ground here---grapes like carignan, mourvedre,
grenache, petite sirah, charbono, etc. and wines were made and
drank from them. nowadays you won't find too many vineyards
planted with these "old-timey" varietals---most of them have
been ripped up and replanted with the fancy stuff. this 2009
indica is not a fancy wine. it's a wine for the dinner table. a wine
for wednesday night. a wine for pizzas, sausages, and korean
bbq. it is as authentic a california wine as you will find.
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