2010 Matthiasson Napa Valley Red California, USA Champagne and continue to be dry-farmed

and continue to be dry-farmed and organic

Petit Buisson fruit is whole-cluster-pressed and allowed to ferment spontaneously with native yeasts and without sulfur in large oak tanks

Given access to Gabriele’s vines

not last because it stands for an extraordinary experience — similar to this special wine

yet taut and lean-feeling

2010 Matthiasson Napa Valley Red California, USA Champagne and continue to be dry-farmedThe Red Hen Merlot Vineyard, along Dry Creek, at the very top of the creeks alluvial fan, is a warm site withvery light and thin soils, composed of a foot of silty loam sitting on top of at least 20 feet of pure cobble. The vines are naturally small berried and early ripening. The stress results in extremely low yields, barely making over a ton per acre of intense and concentrated fruit. In the 1950s through the 1970s, this block produced the top