Variety: Grenache

Vineyard: Shake Ridge

AVA: Amador County, CA

Farming: Organic

Harvest Date: 11 September 2024

Bottling Date: 31 July 2025

Alc: 13%

Cases: 90

As I’ve said many times, Ann’s Shake Ridge Ranch is a special vineyard, and her Grenache is the most stunning I’ve ever worked with - light in color, beautiful aromatics, but with a consistently strong tannic backbone that makes the wine very age worthy.  As with most everything in 2024, I picked Ann’s Grenache a couple weeks earlier than in 2023 to compensate for the hotter and faster vintage we experienced.

At the winery, the Grenache was fully foot crushed, and left to ferment 100% whole cluster in tank.  It saw a slightly longer maceration on skins than in 2023, spending exactly a week in tank before being pressed.  The pressed wine was left to finish primary fermentation in tank, and then the Grenache was barreled down to neutral oak barriques and one puncheon, where it aged through the winter, spring and summer.

In late July, all the barriques and puncheon of Grenache were racked to tank for bottling.

Indigenous yeast fermentation.  25 ppm SO2 added at bottling, no other additions, unfined and unfiltered.