2021 Sémillon
My funky, quirky, elegant, badass friend. This is the Iris Apfel of wines, timeless. Generously giving aromas and flavors of honeycomb, white flowers, and pear, with that lovely petrol note on the finish.
Pair with grilled chicken or a delicate fish, shellfish with Asian flavors, pasta primavera, potato leek soup, or a salad with goat cheese.
Wine Specifications
ABV
12.4%
Vintage
2021
Region
Santa Barbara County
Varietal
100% Sémillon
Vineyard notes
Picked in the first weeks of the vintage, after a cooler week of temperatures. It was picked on a foggy, but unusually warm morning. The vineyard had an opportunity to ripen slowly as we had no extreme heat waves. The fruit was in beautiful condition when hand harvested.
Production notes
40% skin contact. Native yeast.
After hand harvesting, a portion of the fruit was destemmed and put into neutral open top barrels for skin contact. It spent 21 and 37 days on the skins with gentle punch downs twice a day. The other lot was pressed as juice and fermented in neutral French oak. Both lots matured in neutral oak, until all were blended together and bottled in the summer.
CASES: 70
Picked
9/1/2021
Waning crescent moon
pressed
9/1/2022
Waning crescent moon
racked
5/31/022
New moon
Bottled
7/15/2022
Waning gibbous moon
