Vinca Minor, Field Blend Red Mendocino Dry-Farmed

Description

Grapes: 50% Carignan, 30% Zinfandel, 20% Sangiovese
Mendocino County
Organic
Bright and inviting notes of fresh rhubarb, ruby red grapefruit, and mysteriously piquant berries
All the varieties are old vines, grown together. Organic and dry-farmed.

Jason Charles spent time after college working as a photographer in the US, Mexico, and Europe. He caught the wine bug waiting tables in New York City restaurants. After experiences working in vineyards in Saint Emilion in Bordeaux and the Sonoma Coast, Jason started the Vinca Minor label to “explore the intersection between farmer, winemaker, and artist.” He believes in organic farming and attempts to make the wines as naturally as possible, always working with indigenous yeast, never filtering or fining, and racking only once before bottling. Jason started last year with a special plot of very old Carignan vines in Redwood Valley, Mendocino, and will harvest the second vineyard of Merlot in Napa Valley in 2014 for the first time.