Caleb Leisure - 'Ab Ovo' - Mourvedre, Marsanne - El Dorado County, Sierra Foothills, CA - 2019

TASTING NOTES: Light, earthy minerality, berries. PRODUCTION NOTES: Co-Fermented in qvevri, pressed after 8 days into qvevri, 8 months elevage. No additions. VARIETAL: 70% Mourvedre, 30% Marsanne APPELLATION: El Dorado, Sierra Foothills SOIL: Volcanic loam, decomposed granite VINES: 20 years old FERMENTED IN QVEVRI! ## --- ## Caleb Leisure Wines is a small, one-person (aided greatly by the help of friends and family) natural wine project housed in Glen Ellen, CA. In 2014, after career adventures in academia and cheese, and formative internships in France, I returned to my native California to begin my own wine project. Before the 2017 harvest, I buried ten authentic Georgian qvevri in the earthen cellar at Coturri Winery. My winemaking is guided by ancient Georgian traditions and by properly grown organic and biodynamic California fruit. No additions or subtractions of any kind are made at any point of the winemaking process.