Arbe Garbe Sonoma Valley White Wine 2019

Private: Arbe Garbe Vintage 2019 Bottle Sizes 750ml Country United States Region California Appellation Sonoma Valley Wine Type White - Still Varietals 50% Malvasia, 30% Tocai, 20% Chardonnay Vineyard Malvasia Bianca - Catie’s Corner vineyard, Russian River Valley -- "Our Malvasia Bianca is grown on Catie’s Corner vineyard in Russian River. When we first started making wines in 2007, the first door we knocked on was Saralee Kunde’s, one of Sonoma County’s most respected winegrowers and a real pioneer that enjoyed propagating new and unusual grape varietals along more traditional ones. Luckily, she believed in our project at first sight. Before she left, she grafted little under one acre of Malvasia Bianca for our own use. We will never be grateful enough for her believing in us and leaving this legacy, and for having met her at all." - Enrico & Letizia // Tocai Friulano old vine (1908) - Pagani Ranch, Sonoma Valley -- "We source our Tocai Friulano grapes from hystoric Pagani Ranch in the heart of the Valley of the Moon. This contract was also achieved through endurance, this time the person to beg was owner Dino Amantite, who could finally not resist the call of his Italian heritage. The Ranch was turned to viticulture in the 1880s by Felice Pagani, Dino’s grandfather. The vines are head-trained. Modern farming techniques are slightly hindered here, due to the narrow spaces between plantings, which is a reminiscence of the times when the vineyard work used to be carried out by the pull of a horse. Each plant is unique, with its own orientation, yield and eventual problematics, and needs to be individually tended to. On our first season working with the Tocai Friulano, Dino’s mom, Norma, showed Enrico how to properly hand-prune the plants, which she meticulously does every year. Here the mystic Sonoma Valley is at its maximum splendor, the grape trees surging over red and dusty soil of volcanic composition, washed down from the Sonoma Mountain Range." - Enrico & Letizia Soil Catie's Corner Vineyard - Sandy loam, Alluvial // Pagani Ranch - Dusty volcanic Vinification 12 hours of skin contact for the Malvasia and for the Tocai, followed by light pressing and native fermentation in puncheons and barrels (20% new); whole cluster pressing for the Chardonnay. Post fermentation, batonnage every week for the first 3 months, than every 2 weeks. Production 640 cases Back to Current Releases