Las Jaras, Glou Glou, 2023, 750 ml

COUNTRY: USA

REGION: France

VARIETAL: 50% Zinfandel | 19% Carignan | 15% Petite Sirah | 6% Mourvèdre | 6% Chardonnay | 4% Cabernet Sauvignon

VINTAGE: 2021

FARMING: Organic and Sustainable

WINEMAKING: To make this light style red wine we used many different vinification methods including carbonic maceration, traditional skin maceration, and what we call reverse saignée. The goal is always to make a layered cohesive blend. Most of the lots were fermented with carbonic maceration, a gentle process that helps to keep early-harvest wines from becoming too tannic. After 7-15 days, depending on the lot, we pressed the juice off its skins where they fermented natively in tank after 10ppm sulfur was added. Reverse saignée is when we whole cluster press tannic red grape varieties and then add that juice to a red wine fermenter. This is a way to increase the juice to skin ratio to make a lighter red wine. Then, to keep the wine bright and fresh, half of the lots were aged in barrels and half were aged in stainless steel tank. This wine received a small amount of sulfur and it was filtered prior to bottling.