Fine Disregard Mataro Pato Vineyards Costa County 2018

The Pato Vineyard is a piece of California wine history — planted around the turn of the 20th century in the renowned Delhi Blow Sands of Contra Costa County, about two miles inland from the California Delta. The vines are own-rooted and dry-farmed organically by Morgan Twain-Peterson and his team at Bedrock Wine Co., sitting atop a gentle knoll facing Mount Diablo. The Mataro block includes some interplanted Carignane, adding further complexity to an already characterful wine.

Fermentation was 100% whole cluster and spontaneous for both primary and malolactic. A combination of foot treading during maceration and gentle pump-overs during fermentation optimised extraction. After two and a half weeks on skins, the wine was pressed into neutral Burgundy barriques for a fourteen-month sur lie élevage, then bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Appellation: Contra Costa County | Farming: Organic, dry farmed, own-rooted | Cases Produced: 81 | ABV: 12.8% | pH: 3.63 | TA: 6.3 g/L