A lovely, slightly orange Palomino with tropical fruit notes and a slight salty nuttiness with candied ginger.
Variety: 100% Palomino
Vineyard: Lopez Vineyard
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
Alcohol: 11.5%
Production: 144 cases
A lovely orange hue, and notes of lychee fruit, salted almonds and candied ginger.
The Palomino grapes were harvested in mid July, food tread to soak on skins for 6 days before being pressed. The juice fermented with native yeast in old French oak barrels and aged on lees for 8 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Planted in 1918, 70 miles inland from Los Angeles and Certified Organic by CCOF, this vineyard is part of California history. The vines are farmed without irrigation in granite rocks and sandy soil surrounded by freeways and track homes. This vineyard is one of the last reminders of an old California.