Nero d'Avola

• 100% Nero d’Avola
• 75% Benson Ranch (Ukiah, Mendocino County) 
• 14-year-old, dry-farmed (no irrigation) vines 
• Planted in gravelly loam soils 
• 25% Fox Hill Vineyard (Talmage Bench, Mendocino County) 
• 33-year-old vines (oldest Nero d’Avola in California) 
• Planted in sandy loam soils 
• Destemmed, pressed at dryness 
• 100% Native yeast fermentation 
• Aged on lees for 12 months, racked, blended, and returned to barrel for an additional 6 months before bottling 
• Unfined and unfiltered (sediment expected) 
• Free SO2 8 mg/L (Total SO2 21 mg/L) 
• 504 cases produced 
• 13% abv

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