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This is a MAGNUM 1.5L bottle, the equivalent of 2 bottles

Tasting notes: Lemon and pineapple on the nose. Crisp green apple, lime zest & lemon on the palate.

For the 2021 vintage, we picked early in the morning and left the juice on the skins until the afternoon, when it was pressed into stainless steel tank. We fermented the wine until dry, then added Chardonnay must to sweeten the wine and then bottled the juice. As it warmed up, fermentation occurred again in bottle, providing the gorgeous bubbles. The wine was disgorged by hand with no dosage. Our sparkling is made with love to be enjoyed until the last drop. Have fun and drink up!

VARIETIES:        87% Chenin Blanc, 13% Muscat

LOCATIONS:      Paso Robles and Santa Maria Valley

VINEYARDS:      Shell Creek Vineyard and North Canyon Vineyard

ALCOHOL:       11%

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Tasting Notes: Kaffir lime & orange peel on the nose. Key lime, grapefruit, honey blossom & sea salt on the palate. 

THE STORY: This is one of the more interesting and complex Love Whites yet. It’s evolved over the years from a Rhône blend of Marsanne and Roussanne and this is the first year we’ve added Orange Muscat to the mix. California is one of the few places Orange Muscat is grown and it is often made in a sweeter style wine. For us, we love the beautiful aromatics and charming texture it brings to the wine. Picpoul from Windmill Vineyard is more substantially featured this year, which brings a new brightness to the blend that makes it hard to put down the glass. 

All white grapes receive a light footstomp on arrival at the winery. It’s an important step for two reasons: We like the complexity the short skin contact gives the wine and, more functionally, treading breaks up the clusters to better fit everything into the press. After a gentle press, the wine goes into mostly neutral barrique with a small fraction into stainless steel tank where it’s fermented and aged for six months.

FUN FACT: Orange Muscat’s pedigree was hotly debated until DNA studies confirmed that it’s a crossing of Chasselas, Muscat Blanc and Petit Grains.

VARIETIES: 26% Picpoul | 22% Clairette | 22% Orange Muscat | 15% Marsanne | 10% Roussanne | 5% Chardonnay

ALCOHOL: 11%

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The 2022 vintage will be released in our Summer Club shipment in June.  The 2021 bottle is featured in the Fox Hill Pack and Amore Trio. 

Tasting notes: Ripe lychee, jackfruit, & white jasmine on the nose, orange peel & lychee water on the palate.

We fermented the Tocai Friulano on the skins in sandstone jars for 10 days, then basket pressed the juice back into 2/3 sandstone jar and 1/3 neutral French oak barrel to age. The Trebbiano was fermented on the skins for 3 days in sandstone jar, then basket pressed back into sandstone jar to finish fermentation and age. All wine was fermented using only native yeasts, no sulfur was added during fermentation and we left the wine unfiltered to showcase its natural texture. Total aging was 6 months. This was our first crop working with Trebbiano and since the yields for Tocai were very low for 2021, we decided to blend the two wines together for this year’s release. The wine comes alive with Trebbiano and its uplifting acidity. We know you will enjoy!

VARIETALS:        60% Tocai Friulano + 40% Trebbiano

LOCATION:      Mendocino County

VINEYARD:      Fox Hill Vineyard

ALCOHOL:       12%

TOTAL PRODUCTION: 320 cases

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This wine will be in our upcoming Summer Club Release. Learn more about the wine club and how to join.

This is Italian sunshine in a glass. Our first vintage was 100% Tocai Fruilano, later adding Trebbiano and now Ribolla Gialla to showcase the liveliness of an Italian skin contact wine with grapes all grown at Fox Hill Vineyard. All three Italian varieties fermented on their skins in sandstone jars. The Tocai Friulano and Ribolla Gialla cofermented together. Two-thirds of the wine was pressed back into jars and 1/3 in neutral French oak barrels to age for eight months. The sandstone jar gives the wine that luminous amber color and subtle structure from the tannins. We fall more in love with what the sandstone jars bring to the wine each year. It’s a great example of the role vessels can play in bringing a wine to life. Friendly with food or even a little cellar time. 

FUN FACT: Our first vintage was 100% Tocai Fruilano and pairs best with artichokes.

VARIETIES: 60% Tocai Friulano | 30% Trebbiano | 10% Ribolla Gialla

VINEYARD: Fox Hill Vineyard

ALCOHOL: 12%

TOTAL PRODUCTION: 540 cases

This wine is exclusive to our wine club members & our Summer Club Release. Learn more about the wine club and how to join.

The Orange Muscat is the flower child of our 2022 vintage. We knew early on we had something special and couldn’t wait to show off its beauty. Supple aromatics and a charming texture, Orange Muscat shows the best qualities of Muscat without being too perfumy. California is one of the few places Orange Muscat is grown and while ours is dry, it can often be made as a sweeter style. It comes from Hartwick Vineyard in Lodi and 2022 is our first vintage with this family-owned vineyard. After a light footstomp on arrival, we gently pressed the Orange Muscat into stainless steel tank for both natural fermentation and to age for eight months.

FUN FACT: The grape’s pedigree was hotly debated until recent DNA studies confirmed that it’s a crossing of Chasselas, Muscat Blanc and Petit Grains.

VARIETIES: 100% Orange Muscat

VINEYARD:  Hartwick Vineyard

ALCOHOL: 12%

TOTAL PRODUCTION: 126 cases

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Notes & Tones is a collaborative wine & album release between DJ Muggs, Egon of Now-Again Records and Chris Brockway of Broc Cellars. 

Notes & Tones –  The Wine

2020 Vintage - 90% Tocai Friulano, 10% Trebbiano from Fox Hill Vineyard. The Tocai Friulano was fermented on the skins with native yeasts in sandstone jarres for 10 days, then basket pressed back into the jarres to age. The Trebbiano was fermented with native yeasts on its skins for three days, then pressed into sandstone jarres to finish fermentation and aged for 10 months. No sulfur added during fermentation, aging or at bottling.

EXPLICIT BLACK LABEL: Underwent similar fermentation but aged for just four months. 

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KouKou Featured in 'Food & Wine Magazine: Cabernet Franc - A Guide to the Basics'

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This wine will be in our upcoming Summer Club Release. Learn more about the wine club and how to join.

KouKou is a special wine with a freshness that we emulate in all of our red wines. Our winemaking style of whole cluster fermentation was unique when we first harvested Cabernet Franc grapes over a decade ago. It wasn’t the typical winemaking approach then, but we loved the way it best captured the grape’s bright and fresh characteristics. The grapes were harvested from Santa Ynez Vineyard located just outside of Santa Barbara. The climate and soil there suits Cabernet Franc grapes with warm days that ease into cool nights that preserve the grape’s natural acidity and freshness. After harvest, the Cabernet Franc underwent carbonic, whole cluster fermentation in stainless steel tank, then pressed and aged in neutral French oak for nine months. Easy to drink now and ages gracefully too.

FUN FACT: This is the textbook definition of a chillable red, a red wine structured

VARIETIES: 100% Cabernet Franc

VINEYARD: Santa Ynez Vineyard

ALCOHOL: 12%

TOTAL PRODUCTION: 440 cases