This wine was grown by a small farmer in Itata. It was farmed by hand and horse with traditional methods of dry-farming old vines with vines of Cinsault in the field-blend. Fermented naturally in small open-top tanks ; caps were punched down by hand and pressing was strictly manual. The wine was...

The fruit comes from an organic, dry-farmed, head-trained vineyard in Hopland that was planted in 1939. 100% destemmed and fermented with native yeasts for 2-3 days in old French oak barrels up to 8 years old. Aged 11 months in 50% 3800L wooden tank and 50% in small barrels (228L). About 800 cases...

100% Carignan, this bottling is part of the "Monovarietali" project.  It comes from the 'Campo al Finocchio' vineyard, planted between 2002-2004 at 250m above sea level, with grey clays and galestro (friable clay/limestone marl).  The SW-facing vineyard is isolated, surrounded by trees. Harvest was...

50% Carignan/30% Syrah/20% Grenache. The Carignan ranges in age from 50 to 100 years old, on hillsides in the AOC of Minervois; the Syrah is over 40 years old. The fruit is hand-harvested, mostly destemmed, and fermented with selected yeasts in vat. After a maceration of several weeks, it is aged...

A blend of 3 Carignan blocks (Billy’s, Coyote Rock, Mitchell Jacks) from the Poor Ranch in Hopland, Mendocino. The oldest block, “Coyote Rock,” was planted in 1943. The Poors are 5th generation farmers and this property has been in their family since the late 1800s. They have never irrigated their...