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Wine Description
The Story
Albariño has been known to produce outstanding wines in the cool climate of Galicia, in North West Spain. We first planted it in our Sonoma Coast vineyard, but that proved too cold for ripening even a cool-climate variety like this. After 4 years, we gave up and grafted the budwood from those vines onto our slightly less cold Russian River Valley estate. We are very excited that it seems to be thriving in our Don Miguel Vineyard!
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Wine Information
Production: 150 cases
The Vinification
The Chardonnay grapes were harvested October 5, 2010 and the Albariño grapes were harvested October 13, 2010. They were gently whole-cluster pressed and aged in neutral barrels of French oak from the forest of Allier, coopered by Damy. After undergoing 100% malolactic fermentation, the wine was aged on its lees until July and then bottled, unfined and unfiltered, in August 2011.
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