A totally serious winelover geek wine. This wine has pecan sandies and apricots on the nose. Lots of salty minerality with crispy apple and chamomile tea. This wine is set up for ageworthiness for sure.
The red(!) grapes were hand harvested and gently whole-cluster pressed to prevent color extraction. The juice was transferred to a stainless steel tank for the beginning of primary fermentation. After yeast were established, the juice was transferred to a 3-year-old medium toast Vernou French oak barrel to complete fermentation. This process took place over 3 weeks at 60˚F. After primary fermentation was completed, the wine was inoculated to encourage partial malolactic fermentation (~40%). During malolactic the lees were stirred bimonthly to create more texture and density. The wine was then racked off the lees, sterile filtered and bottled on January 25, 2021.
25 cases produced.
2020 Brockmeyer Blanc of Grenache
$25.00
Cederquist Vineyard was originally planted in the 1890s and was producing when the Cederquists bought the neighboring property in 1904. The original Grenache plantings of just under 2 acres were planted with 8’x10’ spacing. In the 1940s the vineyard was acquired by the Cederquist family and expanded to its current size of 12 acres with additional plantings of Grenache on 8’x12’ spacing. This wine comes from the original 1890s plantings.