2022 Amevive, Marsanne Estate Ibarra-Young Vineyard, Los Olivos, California

These vines were planted in 1973, part of the second planting at Ibarra-Young Vineyard. They are own rooted, no till, rotationally grazed, and interplanted with native plants to the Santa Ynez watershed. This block sits across a fairly sandy part of an alluvial bench that runs through the vineyard. It has extremely low vigor so its clusters are constantly dappled with the California sunshine. Imagine this while youre tasting! Weve been working hard on rebuilding soil health in this section and are just now beginning to see the impacts of our rotational grazing and no-till practices.

SOIL: Sandy, alluvial soils

VITICULTURE: Farmed using organice methods and regenerative agriculture

VINIFICATION: This wine was picked around 20.5B just as the acids were starting to deplete. In the cellar, 20% of these grapes were destemmed and fermented in a small stainless steel tank for 10 days on skins, and the other half was pressed directly and fermented in neutral french oak barrels until dry. The fermentation is always with native yeast and native bacteria. After 10 days, the skin contact portion of this wine was pressed in the basket press before aging in neutral french oak.

AGING: This wine went fully through malolactic fermentation and spent 18 months on elevage without sulfur. The skin contact portion and the direct press portion of this wine were combined into one about 5 months before bottling. The 2022 Marsanne was bottled unfined and unfiltered on March 18th, 2024.

PRODUCTION: 94 cases

NOTES: Floral and warm nose with a delicate and welcoming palate. Think passing a honeysuckle bush on a long springtime walk. This wine likes good views at golden hour at your favorite tranquil spot. This wine is great now, great the next day, and will age for many, many years.