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Yila' Red Blend

VARIETALS
Carignan, Grenache, Syrah, Gamay, Grüner Veltliner, Graciano, Albariño

NOTES

VINEYARD: Several organic- and regenerative-practicing vineyards of varying altitudes and soil composition throughout Santa Barbara County.

FARMING: Biodynamic, Organic, Regenerative Organic

VINIFICATION: Twenty-one percent of this blend was co-fermented at a low temperature for two months, while the remaining 79% was blended before bottling. The fermentations start pied a cuve, using indigenous yeasts present on the fruit from individual sites. They use sunlight to get fermentations going, rolling their square fermenters out of the small cellar and into the warm courtyard behind the building. The fermenters vary in size from a tiny half-ton capacity vessel, to a (still tiny) 1.5 ton cube. All the fruit passes over a sorting table. Tara also tries to presort during the harvest, removing blemished or unripe clusters, and stray vegetation. Some of the fruit is fermented whole-cluster. There’s no set recipe. The couple only add small amounts of SO2 to their wines at bottling. They scrupulously steam clean all the winery’s small collection of neutral oak barrels, to avoid any contamination or off flavors. The meticulously clean workspace they inhabit speaks to an understanding of what is necessary to make natural, low-intervention wines without flaws. Aged 10 months in neutral French oak, bottled unfined, unfiltered.