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Birichino - Vin Gris
Grenache from California, United States

Grenache 72%, Carignane 11%, Mourvèdre 7%, Cinsault 7%,and Vermentino 3%.The Grenache comes from the western edge of the Salinas Valley, complimented by very old Carignane, Mourvedre, and Cinsault vines in Contra Costa and Lodi. The fruit is all hand-harvested and fermented with native yeasts in a...

DB4471-22

Birichino - Zinfandel Old Vines `Saint Georges` Central Coast
Zinfandel from California, United States

Saint Georges is not a site name, but rather the proprietary name they attached to this cuvée, which is a blend of blocks off of the Santa Cruz Mountains (50’ too low to qualify for what became the Santa Cruz Mountains appellation in 1981). The Zinfandel vines at this site were first planted in...

DB4475-21

Birichino - Grenache Besson Vineyard
Grenache from California, United States
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DB4627-22

Birichino - Mourvèdre Old Vines Enz Vineyard Lime Kiln Valley
Mourvèdre from California, United States

Mourvèdre from the limestone and decomposed granite soils of Enz Vineyard in Lime Kiln Valley (San Benito County). The head-trained Mourvèdre vines used for this bottling come from a parcel planted in 1922. The Enz family purchased the site in 1967, and have been farming the Mourvèdre and Pinot...

Organic
DB4474-22

Birichino - Sémillon Yount Mill Vineyard Napa Valley
Semillon from California, United States
Organic
DB4797-22

Birichino - Pinot Noir 'Saint Georges' Central Coast
Pinot Noir from California, United States

The majority of the fruit for this bottling comes from George Besson's decades-old Pinot Noir, planted at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Two sites from the higher-elevation limestone soils of the Gabilan Range (Rodnick and Boer) were used to supplement the blend, providing darker fruit and...

Organic
DB4551-23

Birichino - Chenin Blanc Jurassic Park Vineyard
Chenin Blanc from California, United States

DB4477-23

Birichino - Malvasia Bianca ‘Pétulant Naturel’ Monterey
Malvasia from California, United States

The Malvasia Bianca ‘normale’ serves as the base for this pet-nat, comprising fruit from a vineyard planted in the early 1990s off of the Santa Lucia Range. Finding the méthode ancestrale too unpredictable and variable, they developed their ‘méthode Birichinoise’. When the grapes are pressed, a...

DB4473-22

Birichino - Cinsault Old Vines Bechtold Vineyard
Cinsault from California, United States

Cinsault from the historic Bechtold Vineyard in the Mokelumne River AVA of Lodi. The twenty-five acre own-rooted Bechthold vineyard, planted in 1886 by German immigrant Joseph Spenker, is the oldest continuously farmed vineyard in Lodi. Bechtold is farmed organically, without irrigation, on Tokay...

Organic
DB4626-23

Birichino - Vin Gris
Grenache from California, United States

DB4471-23

Birichino - Malvasia Bianca Monterey
Malvasia from California, United States

Malvasia Bianca from sandy shale soils on the western flank of the Santa Lucia Range in Monterrey. John Locke and Alex Krause have been using fruit from this site, Loma del Rio, since their days at Bonny Doon. For this wine, a nighttime machine harvest is employed at their direction, resulting in...

DB4472-23

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