2010 La Severità di Bruto Farina Vineyard
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LSB is in some sense our most serious wine and, if one asks solely about how we make it, our most conventional. The Farina vineyard is a beautiful hillside vineyard on the east-facing slope of Sonoma Mountain. The LSB comes from the highest (at about 1,000 feet) and most well-drained section of the vineyard; it is one of our very rockiest sites. In 2010, we harvested about half as much fruit as usual. We whole-cluster-pressed all of it, gently; fermented and aged it in two 70-gallon stainless steel barrels. We use SO2 liberally, but not wildly, to suppress malolactic fermentation and preserve freshness. We bottle the wine after a year; while it is still piercing and direct, not oxidized at all nor affected by post-fermentation microbes.
Yet the wine is extreme, and in some ways, unrecognizable—at least as California Sauvignon Blanc.