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Albariño Lost Slough Vineyard

VARIETAL
Albariño

NOTES

VINEYARD: Lost Slough Vineyard in the Sacramento River Delta. The vineyard is a large flat plain in the Delta, a beautiful, calm, cool, wetlands east of Napa and south of Sacramento. The soil here is shallow and consists of clay loam dotted with ancient sea shells from when the whole area was under water—only as little as 150 years ago. The weather is cool, foggy, with very good breezes in the afternoon and evening. The soil is difficult and makes the vines struggle; the cool, breezy growing conditions permit leisurely ripening. Lost Slough is the first vineyard Keep Wines ever worked with after having discovered it while working with the Scholium Project.

VINIFICATION: Native fermentation, unfined/unfiltered and aged in neutral oak for 18 months. The wine was bottle aged for another 18 months before release.