2022 Old Vines Carignan

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100% Carignan

Mendocino County

238 Cases

Label Art by Chloe Wise

 

We’ve always been intrigued by Carignan. It’s a misunderstood variety that often gets planted where it doesn’t belong. Carignan seems to perform its best when planted on benchland with properly draining loam soils and a warm climate to help it respire acid and round the tannins. When it’s treated right Carignan is a thing of beauty: juicy, brambly, and spicy.

Our 2019 Mendocino County Carignan opens up with a nose of black plum, blueberry, and violets. The palate is incredibly concentrated and fleshy with flavors of elderberry, raspberry bramble, and pomegranate. Finishes with mineral notes, and soft, melted tannin. This Carignan is very intense and concentrated due to the drought year on these dry farmed vines. With this vintage we gave the wine an extra four months of barrel age to help it round out. That extra aging before release makes it a beautiful pairing for all sorts of food: Mediterranean fare, burgers, pizza, and more.

This is a single-vineyard wine, the grapes come from the Lee Testa Vineyard in the Calpella area of Mendocino County, near Ukiah. The vineyard is on the benchlands to the west of the valley, and is farmed by Gary Venturi, who owns the vineyard next door. These old vines were planted in the mid-1960s. The vineyard is dry-farmed organically. The soils are Yokayo series sandy loam that is very well drained. Due to Gary’s fastidious suckering and canopy management, this is an incredibly clean vineyard, and gets only one or two sulfur dustings per season.

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Produced + Bottled by Las Jaras Wines in Sebastopol, CA