Description
Clos Mullet Vineyard is located in Los Alamos, Santa Barbara County, California
(34044’39”N 120016’12”W). It was planted in 2014 by the Lo-Fi team. Chamise shaly loam series consist of well drained soils that developed over gravelly beds of silt and clay and sandy water-deposited materials. Chamise soils normally contain a large number of water rounded fragments of Monterey shale. Permeability is moderately slow. The cuttings were gathered from neighboring vineyards and planted own rooted.
Hand harvested and organically grown; 100% de-stemmed, pumped-over once daily in an open top tank. Primary and secondary fermentation via native yeasts and bacteria. No sulfur used at harvest. The wine was fermented until dry then pressed to tank, settled, then racked to barrel the following day. Racked once prior to blending. Total of 25 ppm so2 added without filtration in keeping with our minimalist (lo-fi) philosophy.
