2023 Los Angeles River Wine Company 'Lone Wolf Blanc

$56.00

From our treasured Lone Wolf vineyard, planted to Listan Prieto and (perhaps!) Grenache and who knows what else, in 1896, and then abandoned about 60 years ago. We have been working closely with the vineyard since we discovered it in 2019.

In 2020, we began making a special harvest for "white fruit" from the vineyard. This year, we harvested the whole vineyard in one pass-- but separated the yellow clusters and the palest pink and red clusters of Mission and Grenache for white wine. We foot stomped and then pressed without maceration. The acidity and freshness are really good, but the wine is also structured. It is barely white, more like a pale, but structured, rosé.

We harvested so little red fruit in 2023 that we made no red wine (about 12 gallons of wine for an eventual Chinato).

The white harvest, however, was the most bountiful since 2021 and we made a whole puncheon of white wine. The wine is very powerful and subtly aromatic, perhaps somewhat like a northern Rhone white. It will age for a decade and more, and no doubt needs time to reach its eventual grandeur.

Expected to arrive December, 2024.

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