la Onda - 'Amor Amarillo' - Sauvignon Blanc - North Yuba, Sierra Foothills, CA - 2019
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Request a Case OrderSemillon~Sauvignon Blanc from North Yuba, CA. The Semillon sits directly above the Sauvignon Blanc on the same slope where the vines are over 40 years old, own-rooted and dry farmed. The fruit was harvested in a number of passes using the same process as Aguafiestas, where fruit is gradually added to the fermentation tank as it comes in over a few week period with a mix of direct press and foot stomped fruit before pressing. Dani lets the aging go a bit further in barrel than required so that there's the opportunity to combine the acidity with the richness from the lees.
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La Onda is a small project dedicated to making living wines of distinctive character. Wines taste alive when they come from vines surrounded by life, terroir that speaks loudly and winemaking that doesn’t get in the way. La Onda embraces the beautiful and painstaking nature of patiently growing wine from start to finish.
I currently farm four acres of own-rooted vines in the Sierra Foothills, split between two slopes at 1,900 and 2,500 ft elevation. The vineyards are wild, a true collection of vines, granite, red clay, insects, bees, herbs, flowers, berries, thistles and hungry animals. The farming is chemical free, without irrigation, without tillage and demands tons of work by hand and hand tools. We harvest the grapes by making several passes through the same vineyard sections over the course of weeks, slowly building fermentations with ripe grapes.
A few wines are produced from these vineyards and an additional four from other organic and/or biodynamic vineyards farmed by friends. The winemaking is very simple: all the wines are either foot-stomped and left to ferment, foot-stomped then pressed or immediately pressed whole-cluster. There is no de-stemming, no additives and juice/wine is almost always moved by gravity flow rather than by pump. Wines are left to age in barrel for as long as they need and then bottled unfined/unfiltered before further bottle aging.