Dirty and Rowdy, Mourvedre Old Vine Enz, 2019 so041522 french wine sale Eight months of barrel aging

Eight months of barrel aging lets the wine's mineral tension and fine-grained tannins speak for themselves

and each variety is fermented and aged separately in French and American oak before the final blend is composed

lending the wine a distinctive mineral depth

darker fruit profile with muscular

then bottles it unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur

Dirty and Rowdy, Mourvedre Old Vine Enz, 2019 so041522 french wine sale Eight months of barrel agingThe Enz Vineyard is a piece of California history: dry farmed, own rooted Mourvedre vines planted in 1922 in the tiny Lime Kiln Valley appellation of San Benito County, with the site acquired by the Enz family in 1967. The limestone and granite soils and roughly 100 year old vines give Hardy Wallace some of his most distinctive, mineral driven fruit, and he handles it simply: whole cluster fermentation, native yeast, neutral 600 liter barrels, then