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White Wine Napa Valley

VARIETALS
50% Sauvignon Blanc 25% Ribolla Gialla 20% Semillon 5% Tocai Friulano

NOTES

VINEYARD: From two vineyards which are both in the cool and foggy southern part of the Napa Valley. The Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon come from Ryans Vineyard, which sits on a streak of alluvial gravel in the center of the valley floor, south part of Napa. The Ribolla Gialla and Tocai Friulano are from the tiny Bengier Vineyard (formerly Vare), in the mouth of Napa’s Dry Creek canyon, right next to the creek. The rocky fluvial soil and cool air drainage of the canyon work perfectly with the variety.

VINIFICATION: Fruit is lightly whole-cluster pressed, and all varieties are blended immediately upon dryness, racked and returned onto the lees for aging until bottling. Matthiasson used 15% new Boutes barrels with no stirring. To preserve the acidity, the wine was prevented from malolactic fermentation. After ten months of barrel aging, the wine was filtered to prevent further malolactic fermentation, and then bottled.