Vineyard
- Organic / Biodynamic (uncertified)
- Grape Percentage: 23, 67, 10 % respectively
- Average age of vines: 30
Cellar
- Fermented spontaneously using low-intervention
- Sulphites: Low sulphites: 30 mg/L
- Fining (clarification): Unfined
- Filtering: Unfiltered
- Suitable for Vegans and vegetarians
- Alcohol: 13.0%
- Residual sugar: <1 g/L
- Vessel type: Wood - Old oak
Additional Information
Bloom is a chillable red made with a different blend of grapes each year all farmed Regeneratively by Darek Trowbridge without irrigation (dry farmed). This year it is made from 67% Pinot noir, 23% Abouriou, 10% Pinotage. The Pinot Noir is planted to sandy Goldridge silt loam soils at the Choate Vineyard near the Sonoma Coast in Graton; the Abouriou is a Basque varietal that was planted on shale soils in an isolated upland mountainous valley by Darek’s great grandfather; the Pinotage is planted to clay loam soils near the banks of McNab Creek at the Gearhart Vineyard in remote Mendocino.
These grapes were stomped with 100% whole clusters and allowed to soak for 5 days of maceration on both skins and stems. Wild Fermentation occurs naturally. Then 9 months in neutral barrels, sur lie the entire time - never racked, then 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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Bloom, 2022
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