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I’ll certainly be popping these in the vineyards when we are picking.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stagiaire Wines","offers":[{"title":"750ml","offer_id":44099830284546,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0090\/7372\/1401\/products\/image_55578e20-5c92-4287-97aa-15dd594dc4bd.jpg?v=1639763780"},{"product_id":"stagiaire-wine-dreams-on-lawaway-2020","title":"Stagiaire Wine, \"Dreams on Layaway\" 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e100% Pinot Noir, direct pressed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the winemaker, Brent: \"There were three separate picks of my Summit Pinotvineyard. This one was right in the middle in terms of ripeness. We picked in a mixture of fog and smoke though we were lucky the air quality wasnt that bad. The grapes were pressed directly avoiding any maceration, the juice was rested to settle out as much ash as possible, and then fermented and aged in neutral French Oak puncheons. Its pink wine. But like really fucking good, and handled exactly the way I would if I were trying to make fancy Chardonnay. Theres a reduction that gets people excited. Crystalline in texture and energy. It’s still relaxing and unfurling after bottling and I think will continue to do so for several months. Loves a decant. Fun out of tiny plastic cups but can also be swirled, smelled, and talked about ad nauseum. 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Chard and Sauv Blanc, 40 year old vines. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrent on this cuvée:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1686353302967_365\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay from vines planted in the 40s at Lolonis in Redwood Valley. Organic and dry farmed. In a year with lots of issues due to drought, this fruit benefitted a ton from it. I had never seen such flavorful and developed skins at a low sugar level before, and the fermentation was very smooth. The Sav Blanc usually gets some botrytis here, but there wasnt any for this dry season. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1686353302967_372\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIts life started in stainless and then it aged in used barrels for 9 months. The wine opens tight and flinty but relaxes into opulent citrus and tropical fruit. 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Going into the next harvest season, some barrels were dry and beautiful. Some were sweet with volatile kisses adorning them. And some were in a space between. I made the decision to pump the barrels over the skins of the 2021 Pinot from that vineyard to try to get the yeast to eat up the remaining sugar... and idk hope for a miracle. After three days, we drained the free run to barrels over several hours (and I wish I had pressed the skins and kept that separate but I didn't) where it stayed for another year before being bottled. During this process in 2021 Pascal looked at me with what I think was respect and fear for my sanity and said that something had clicked for him that day and he finally understood my winemaking. I don't know what he meant. So here is 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot rosato with two years elevage and three days of maceration. It is pretty fucking cool and good and the miracle I didn’t know I was hoping for. Sea spray on cherry chapstick coated lips. 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Bottled unfined, unfiltered, no additional SO2. 12.6%ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Brent Mayeaux, the winemaker:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis site and a lot of the higher elevation coastal Santa Cruz Pinots remind me a lot of some of my favorite Alsace Pinots. I’m not super educated on soils there but I think there is a bit of sandstone in some vineyards that the producers we love work with. There is a dark brooding streak underneath the red fruit. Maybe a touch of iodine. And lifted aromatics. Fuck. 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Fermented in puncheons and barrels, and aged there for about 10 months. Not a lot of stuff to write about good white wine. It gets pressed, put into barrel, and then put into bottle haha. Too simple. It just takes good grapes. This site makes good grapes. Seeds are fully brown, pulp separates from them easily, skins are soft, and stems are lignifying. All the metrics you look for when judging phenolic ripeness… achieved at modest sugars and without losing acid. It shines whether I pick it at 11.5% or 13.5%abv. This is fancy white wine. Elegant. Jasmine and chamomile tea. Orange marmalade and saffron creamsicle. These mid candies called Jujubes that my friend Zane was obsessed with in high school. Reminiscent of warm vintage white burgundy or California Chard made to taste like wine from over there. Rocking and rolling right now, but I know it will be beautiful years down the road. Honestly one of the best white wines I’ve made, so I encourage you to save some if you can. 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Some great flavors and nuanced characteristics often don't come out until  fermentation is almost finished and this allows me to capture those while maintaining vibrancy and elegance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description text-green\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Hillside vineyard Zinfandel was planted in the 70s… on a hillside… over the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas near Talmadge.  These dry farmed and head trained vines stand stalwartly on their slope, soaking up the mendocino sun, free to bend as the  wind wills them and reach wherever their arms see fit. Working with this variety is so exciting and stimulating to me, as it feels  like it belongs to California more so than most other varieties, so to experiment and craft wines with this material that so many  other winemakers have wielded is humbling and grounding. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhole clusters steeped in direct pressed juice for four weeks. No punchdowns or pumpovers. Just loving hands, tenderly  pressing the cap down just low enough for the juice below to soak the grapes skins that have floated to the top. Allowing  whatever is in the skins to be freely given to the must rather than forcibly extracting it. After fermentation, it aged in neutral  puncheons and barrels for 9 months. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eStrawberries and strawberry jam. Watermelon candy. Touch of spices like clove and cinnamon. These bright flavors balanced  with just enough bitterness to lengthen the wine and keep it from being one of those glouglous. Chaparral. Lavender. Dandelion  root. A first date. Maybe the first one you’ve been on in a while. It’s going really well and you are already visualizing the rest of your life with this person. You tell yourself to calm down even though you don’t want to. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis is the only red wine from 2022 that I feel ok with releasing right now. The others will all be in a much better place at the  end of the year. This one will too, I’m sure, but it is perfectly charming as it is now. 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I share this site with Joe Ryan who also worked at Flowers as Head of Grower Relations and is now the winemaker for Ernest. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDue to the remote nature of the site and harvest logistics it needs to get picked in two passes and we can really only get pickers on the weekends. This wine is from the last pick of 2023. Perfectly ripe, dense, black fruit. 100% destemmed and left on skins for 30 days. Aged in barrels and puncheons for a year. 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