Non-Vintage • Nero d'Avola Rosato NV No. 2

Nero d'Avola Rosato NV No. 2

Varietal:

90% Nero d'Avola, 10% Negroamaro, 90% 2024 + 10% 2022

Alcohol:

12.5%

Vinification Notes:

A co-fermentation of our youngest Nero d’Avola vines (planted in 2017) at Bricarelli Ranch with a few rows of adjacent Negroamaro vines. Hand-harvested and macerated on skins and stems overnight (Vino di una notte or ‘one night wine’) before pressing. Fermented and aged on fine lees in neutral vessels before blending with a small percentage of Nero d’Avola rosato from the 2022 vintage. Unfined. Filtered for stability.

Vineyard:

Nero d’Avola and Negroamaro from Bricarelli Ranch, Ukiah, Mendocino County; head trained vines planted in 2008 (Negroamaro) and 2017 (Nero d’Avola); dry farmed (non-irrigated) vineyard, farmed by us to organic principles (no pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers); gravelly loam soils.

Martha's Notes

Vino di una notte... This translates to ‘one night wine’ and refers to the technique of crushing grapes and leaving them to macerate on skins (and in our case, stems) in their own juice overnight, adding color, texture, and complexity. I love using this technique with our Nero d’Avola because it produces a wine that falls between rosé and a red wine—zippy and bright like a rosé but textured and robust like a red wine. The farming at Bricarelli Ranch also adds to the complexity of this wine. Dry-farmed on well drained soils, grape berries are small due to water scarcity and have a higher skin to juice ratio (skins are where you get a ton of flavor). The roots of these vines penetrate deep into the soil in search of water, at depths where soil mineral content goes up and organic matter is scarce, elevating the uptake of minerals, which I notice most as textural differences in the wine.