Vineyard
- Organic / Biodynamic (uncertified)
- Grape Percentage: 100%
- Average age of vines: 80
Cellar
- Fermented spontaneously using low-intervention
- Sulphites: Low sulphites: 30 mg/L
- Fining (clarification): Unfined
- Filtering: Unfiltered
- Suitable for Vegans and vegetarians
- Alcohol: 13.3%
- Residual sugar: <1 g/L
- Vessel type: Wood - Old oak
Additional Information
This Chardonnay comes from the Nagomi Vineyard, which is farmed Regeneratively by Darek Trowbridge in the Russian River Valley and a neighboring vineyard with the same soil. The soils are a silty loam much like the Goldridge soils of the nearby Sebastopol. Darek uses mulch (composted at the winery site) under the vines to increase the fertility of each vine by bringing microbiology, organic matter, tilth, and drought tolerance to the soil.
These grapes were stomped with 100% whole clusters and allowed to soak for 5 days of skin contact. Wild Fermentation occurs naturally. Then 9 months in neutral barrels, sur lie the entire time - never racked. The wines are bottled unfined/unfiltered.
Old World Winery is a small, family owned winery and farm. Organic, Biodynamic, Dry Farmed, Hand Picked, Foot Stomped, and All Natural, it is true to its name. For 20 years proprietor and fourth generation winemaker Darek Trowbridge has chosen to use the traditional practices learned from his Grandfather Lino Martinelli, to produce chemical free, delicious wines. Darek’s passion is inviting nature into his winemaking using 120 year old field blends, rare varietals and only the native yeasts found on the grapes themselves for fermentation. Winemaking and farming can be a sacred ritual. It’s about purity and transparency in fruit and form. That is Old World Winery’s guiding principle.
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Abourious, 2011
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