2023 California Stars "Star Crossed"

​From the winemakers:

The cabernet is coming from our own farmed vineyard (Stone Barn Farm Vineyard) in the Sonoma Valley right on the border with Carneros. We farm these grapes organically without any irrigation. You typically see more pinot and chardonnay in this area, but we like the cool climate so that we can get good hang time and maturity while preserving good acid and keeping the alcohol low. The soils are deep, well drained alluvial soils, which are well suited to dry farming in this climate. For vinification we simply destem the grapes and let them ferment in stainless tanks and they are pressed at dryness (in this case 15 days). We then raised the wine in a combination of neutral french 60 gal barrels and 300 gal HDPE flextanks.

The merlot is coming from Lolonis. The grapes were treated similarly to the cabernet sauvignon, destemmed and fermented til dryness (16 days maceration) and aged in stainless tanks to preserve freshness.

The wines were blended just prior to bottling and 20ppm was added.