Each grape is sorted upon receipt of the harvest, we work by gravity in order to respect the natural circuit of winemaking. We do a light press and keep only free-run juice and press heart. Each grape origin is vinified separately in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats.
Albariño has been known to produce outstanding wines in the cool, rainy 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 four years, we gave up and grafted the budwood from those vines onto our slightly warmer Russian River Valley estate. We are very excited that it is now thriving in the Don Miguel Vineyard!
The grapes are sorted upon receipt at the winery, where the team work by gravity in order to be as respectful as possible of the natural cycle of vinification. Pascal lightly presses the grapes and only keep the first part of the juice – the purest, most precise and full of flavour.
The grapes are harvested by hand; South hillsides. Each grape is sorted upon receipt of the harvest, we work by gravity in order to respect the natural circuit of vinification. We do a light press and keep only free-run juice and press heart. Natural vinification in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats and ageing for 8 months on fine lees.