Twelve bottles of wine from the 2021 vintage of WineWorks, the first produced at the Sebastopol winery. This package includes two bottles each of the Balletto Chardonnay, the Balletto and La Vista Pinot Noirs and three bottles each of the Emmitt-Scorsone Grenache and the Collins Vineyard Old-Vine Zinfandel.
This wine is made from grapes grown at John Balletto's Occidental Road Vineyard, located about a mile north-east of the town of Sebastopol. The vineyard's location, in the southern-most third of the Russian River Valley where the weather is much cooler than areas to the north, provides an extended period of ripening for Chardonnay.
Wonderfully rich and complex, with layers of pear, apple, citrus and melon flavors that are long and intense on the finish.
This wine was made using native yeasts and malolactic bacteria. The fermentation was long and slow with the two lots finishing the secondary fermentation in April of 2017. The blended wine was dry, stable and bottled without fining or filtration.
A powerful, expressive wine, with a core of citrus fruit. The initial nose is restrained, offering muted notes of lemon blossoms and wet stone. On the palate the wine is bright, showing primary flavors of ripe citrus, casaba melon and lemon curd. The finish is well balanced and persistent with a long, mouthwatering finish.
