Description
Tasting Notes: Cranberry, Cherry, Rose Hips, Orange Peel, Graphite, Wet Stone
The Pinot Noir from North Canyon was destemmed and fermented in an open top stainless-steel fermenter for 2 weeks. Punched down once daily. Pressed into tank and barreled down after a day. Aged 10 months in neutral French oak. Racked once prior to blending.
The Trousseau from Clos Mullet was also destemmed and fermented in an open top stainless-steel fermenter for 2 weeks
The two wines were blended just a month before bottling which was done by hand and without filtration or use of any fining agents.
All Lo-Fi wines are fermented via native yeasts and bacteria. Nothing is added, no nutrients, commercial yeasts, bacteria, enzymes, tannins or other popular fermentation agents. We added a total of only 25 parts per million So2 prior to bottling in keeping with our low intervention, “Lo-Fi” philosophy.
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 and sits on Chamise Shaly Loam series that consist of well drained soils developed over gravelly beds of silt, clay and sandy water-deposited materials. Chamis soils normally contain a large number of water rounded fragments of Monterey shale. Permeability is moderately slow. The cuttings were taken from Jackson Vineyard in Sonoma County planted in the late 1800’s.
