![]() A fine, unfiltered haze, just shy of transparency, lends even more texture to the 2022. As is almost always the case, with lack of quantity came amazing quality – a new level of tactile depth and a bright, dynamic flavor profile. With the addition of Tocai Fruilano to our orange wine quiver, we anticipated a nice increase in production but instead wound up over 25% down from 2021. Far fewer clusters budded than even our conservative forecasts for these old, conservative vines. The cold, windy springtime conditions especially affected the more delicate white varietals. We then capture this fresh profile by bottling early, in mid-January. ![]() This delicate extraction ensures a clean, balanced “fresh” orange wine. Pressing the whole grapes after only 7 days allows the native fermentation to finish as liquid only, removed from the skins. Gewurztraminer adds further color and more exotic tropical notes. In 2022 we are thrilled to add the traditional orange wine grape, Tocai Fruilano for more texture and brightness. Pinot Gris for depth and color co-fermented with tropical Orange Muscat. In our third edition of Love You Bunches Orange, we’ve further refined our varietal blend to deliver the most delicious Orange yet. In 2020, we decided to experiment with the technique on white grapes to make an orange wine. Over the past decade, we’ve fallen deeply in love with whole-grape, low-extraction carbonic fermentation as a way of delivering delicious, fresh expressions of our intense Santa Barbara County red grapes.
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