NSFW Montepulciano
Why Montepulciano? We’ll be honest: our favorite wines from Abruzzo are the light-on-their-feet, downright chuggable, barely red but not quite rosé wines of the region. So we set out to see if that could be done in California. If authentic renditions of esoteric Italy are your thing, then Fox Hill Vineyard is the place to be.
Vinification: All grapes were lightly foot-tread and macerated on skins and stems for four days. As fermentation began to kick off, the grapes were gently pressed in a traditional ratchet-style wood basket press into fiberglass and allowed to undergo primary fermentation off the skins. Primary and secondary fermentation occurred with wild yeasts and native bacteria from the vineyard, and the wine was allowed to rest on all lees for ten months. It was bottled without fining or filtration, with a small addition of 10 parts winemaking sulfur prior to bottling.
The Producer
Jupiter Wine Co. is more than just wine (although we consider ourselves some of the biggest wine geeks in the business) and more than just a community of like-minded individuals that share a love for minimal intervention wines. We aim to establish an economic engine that stands up to consolidated, corporate wine and the economic apartheid those organizations have created towards agricultural and hospitality workers in this community. These organizations have appropriated the term ‘sustainability’ as a sales and marketing tool without considering the economic sustainability of the most fragile communities essential to its creation; and what they’ve given us are gross domestic products in their pursuit of Gross Domestic Product. When you support Jupiter Wine Company, you don’t just drink natural wines, you can have the confidence that 100% of the profits generated go to affordable housing solutions for the communities most responsible for its creation.
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