A Gluggable Skin Contact-y White

A Gluggable Skin Contact-y White Our 2024 Skin Contact-y just keeps getting better. This is our 5th vintage and each year we make it, I fall more deeply in love than the last. It’s the type of orange wine that knows it’s orange, but isn’t screaming it from across a crowded, loud bar. Elevated, clean, but with plenty of tannin. When I close my eyes and taste this wine, all I can see is an empty plastic fruit roll up wrapper on the floor of my elementary school cafeteria. Lunch line sloppy joes would make a mean pairing but you’ll be just as happy lugging it to the beach with a cold turkey sandwich and some salt ‘n vinny potato chips. Plop down in the sand, crack open the playmate cooler and take the bottle straight to the face.

Cépage (aka what's in it!):

• 40% Riesling: for structure, floral elements such as jasmine, and a minerality from the natural acidity of the grape itself.
• 40% Sauvignon Blanc: for extreme tropical and stone fruit aromatics such as mango, passionfruit and apricot.
• 20% Pinot Gris: for density, the texture of red stones and verticality through gooseberries, etc

Winemaking practice: One tank held only Riesling on skins for 16 days. Another held only Sauvignon Blanc for 21 days on skins. A third tank held Pinot Gris on skins for 14 days and finally, a fourth tank held a composite of the blend in all three in a 40/40/20 combination. All wines were drained and pressed back to stainless steel for élevage, aside from a small portion of the Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris, which was sent to neutral French Oak. Wine was sulfured post malolactic fermentation and blended up to stainless steel tank six months after pressing for bottling.