2024 Graciano
First off, you must drink this wine chilled. It’s the only way to experience the full crunchy-berry effect along with notes of Elderberry syrup, tart cherry, white pepper, hay, and clove. Lively and fresh with flavors of plum skin, bay leaf, and wild raspberry leading to a snappy finish.
Start your evening by paring this with a charcuterie board...total perfection. Maybe you won’t even need a main course. But, if you do, anything from the grill would be delish.
Wine Specifications
ABV
13.4%
Vintage
2024
Region
Santa Barbara County
Varietal
100% Graciano
Vineyard notes
The 2024 growing season started cool and slow, with the sun and heat not arriving until mid-June. The fruit retained more of its natural acid, a welcomed trend we saw across the two vineyards this season. Yields were slightly lower than average, a clear contrast to the abundance of last year. The Graciano came in looking especially good for carbonic, with firm intact skins and no disease.
Production notes
The Graciano is our middle child of the winery. We dont worry about its chemistry too much, and is very low intervention, but always reliably turns out vibrant, fresh, and delicious. Once the fruit is harvested the whole clusters are loaded into tanks, which are then sealed up and kept saturated with CO2 for 17-22 days to ferment carbonic. The partially fermented grapes are then pressed, and finish fermentation in tank. Once the ferments are dry it is racked to neutral barrels for an additional 4 months, before blending and bottling in the spring. It is bottled without any fining and filtration and just a minimal amount of sulpher.
CASES: 480
Picked
9/3/2024
Third quarter moon
pressed
10/11/2024
First quarter moon
racked
2/18/2025
Third quarter moon
Bottled
3/20/2025
Third quarter moon
