la Onda - 'Aguafiestas - Smith Vineyard' - Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon - Sierra Foothills, CA - 2020
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Request a Case OrderA lighter extraction approach to the classic mack-daddies of classic california winemaking. Dani is a wizard of the mountains and farms these grapes with little else but labour and love. This is hardcore winemaking and some of the most serious juice satellite sells! ... and yet still somehow incredibly delicious to drink casually on any night of the year.
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Cabernet Sauvignon~Merlot
Smith Vineyard, Sierra Foothills
45 year old vines, own-rooted, granitic soil
Farmed by La Onda
12.2% alc
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.