2021 Wonderwerk Free Your Mind, Contra Costa County, California Burgundy blood and iron

blood and iron

Haarmeyer Wine Cellars 'Calaveras' Zinfandel

indigenous yeast fermentation

The grapes are destemmed with berries kept whole and gently pressed without breaking the skins

2021 Wonderwerk Free Your Mind, Contra Costa County, California Burgundy blood and ironFree Your Mind is a novel co fermentation of skin fermented Riesling and old vine carbonic Carignan. The idea is to be more than the sum of the parts. At its core, Free Your Mind is an aromatic skin fermented Riesling. When the Riesling begins to ferment, pressed carbonic Carignan is gradually blended in via pump overs. Our goal was to conduct a layered extraction of Riesling skins; first in a water matrix (Riesling must, with little to no alcohol),