Glassmaker - Roussanne Blend - North Coast, CA - 2020
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Request a Case Order“Like sun low in the sky that might be rising, might be setting. These grapes are from Mendocino and Lake Counties. They combine aromas of cara cara red oranges and wet chaparral shrubs. It’s a wine for the shade of a redwood, or a sturdy old stoop,”
VINTAGE: 2020
APPELLATION: Mendocino, California GRAPES: 65% Roussanne, 20% Sauvignon Blanc, 15% Chenin Blanc
YEASTS: Natural
MACERATION: Roussanne and Sauvignon blanc: ten days whole cluster, Chenin Blanc: direct press
AGED: 12 months in old barrel CLARIFICATION/FILTRATION: Unfiltered, unfined
ADDED SO2: 25ppm
SO2 REGIME: 20ppm mid-fermentation, 5ppm at bottling
FARMING: Organic
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 13.1%
"Howdy, I’m Jonathan Walton and I made these wines! Why? Its something about loving hard work and getting dirty, then cleaning up and pretending at being fancy. Its something about participating in a community of food and wine and friends and strangers that I love and admire. Its something about afternoons every fall when I smell the air, see the darker sky and crave from the deepest levels of my being northern rhone Syrah. And its something about gratefully, critically contributing to the discursive of wine.
Glassmaker is a family name. It is a project that I’ve made my life and yes it does tend to get intertwined quite quickly with all my passions. Intertwined like good friends and good drinks around sturdy old tables. Intertwined like the random beautiful histories of this California. Histories that involve wild lands and ignoble grapes. Histories that were bent by tenacious farmers and immigrants; driven, morphing communities. So please enjoy, keep learning and pretend with me at being here and there!"