Giornata - Nebbiolo - Paso Robles, CA - 2020

Our Nebbiolo pays homage to the great wines of Barolo and Barbaresco. Our version typically spends 24 months in oak and over 6 months in bottle prior to release. It is well structured and built to age in a chilled cellar for many years and even decades. Utilizing a lengthy post fermentation maceration on its skins, its formidable tannin is refined to a cellar-worthy, yet immediately approachable profile.

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Our Philosophy The journey in creating Giornata started with a dream to create wines from Italian grapes grown in California employing the sensibility and philosophy of Italian winemaking. We work with the same grape vines (clonal material) as the best producers in Italy. The Central Coast of California possesses many of the attributes of the top wine growing regions of Italy. Our winemaking style leans more Italian than Californian in that we favor wines with balance and subtlety rather than intensity and extraction. We pick our grapes at lower sugar levels and handle our must gently in the cellar, thus resulting in wines that belong on the Italian dinner table possessing both ample acidity and tannin. Traveling to Italy on a regular basis, we continue to receive feedback on our efforts while researching Italian winemaking and viticultural methods.