aged for 3 years on the lees
the wine displays a radiant
with vanilla and candied tropical fruit on the nose
The red is the rarest wine at Italy's most secretive estate
On the nose primary hints of ripe fruit
Rootdown Savagnin Cole Ranch 2023 ABC321 aged for 3 years onSavagnin is the grape behind the Jura's famous whites, and there is almost none of it planted in California. Mike Lucia put some in the ground at Cole Ranch, America's smallest AVA, a single bowl of vines tucked in the hills between Ukiah and Anderson Valley where he is a partner in the vineyard. He farms two clones, vert and jaune, at around 1,500 feet, and the elevation shows: this is lean, crunchy and salty rather than fat, with melon, lemongrass