2022 Whitcraft Winery Stolpman Vineyard Grenache, Ballard Canyon, USA Bucklin - From the importer

- From the importer

Harvest Technique by hand

Vinification: Directly pressed

A sparkling blend from two plots - 20-year old Beba and Alarije (yes these are the grapes) from Tierra de Barros (in Extremadura on clay-limestone soils) and Palomino Fino from Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Andalusia on albariza de barajuelas soils) from a hundred-year-old vineyard

The Chardonnay is coming from our own-farmed vineyard in west Sonoma County near occidental on the True Sonoma Coast

2022 Whitcraft Winery Stolpman Vineyard Grenache, Ballard Canyon, USA Bucklin - From the importerGrapes are handpicked and sorted. Theyre lightly trodden by foot allowing carbonic to start. A pied de cuvee made from sampling juice is added to kick start fermentation. The wine is blanketed with CO2 until the cuvee is generating its own. After around three days when the skins start to loosen manual punchdowns are started once or twice per day. After 12 days the cap is lifted and the wine is drained through a sieve, theres no pumping, everything is