Vineyard: Shake Ridge

AVA: Amador County, CA

Farming: Organic

Harvest Date:  6 September 2025

Bottling Date: 8 April 2026

Alc: 13%

Cases: 90

While Sonoma and Mendocino saw a cooling event in early September than delayed our harvest as compared to 2024, Amador County did not.  Instead, we picked the 2025 Shake Ridge Grenache almost a week earlier than in 2024 – a warming trend that we are unfortunately seeing repeated more intensely as I write this, during the 2026 vintage.

The 2025 Grenache, though early in the season, came in beautifully colored and perfectly ripe.  At the winery, the Grenache was fully foot crushed, and left to ferment 100% whole cluster in tank. It spent exactly a week on skins 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.

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

Indigenous yeast fermentation.  20 ppm SO2 added at bottling, no other additions, unfined and unfiltered.