Rootdown Savagnin Cole Ranch 2023 bis-hidden Le Pianelle farms in Bramaterra

Le Pianelle farms in Bramaterra

and it is made with the same hands-off logic Diana Snowden Seysses brings back from her other job at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac

at the base of the Vaca Mountain Range

It is the rare southern white that drinks like it has somewhere to be

no preservatives

Rootdown Savagnin Cole Ranch 2023 bis-hidden Le Pianelle farms in BramaterraSavagnin is the grape behind the Jura's famous whites, and there is almost none of it planted in California. Mike Lucia put some in the ground at Cole Ranch, America's smallest AVA, a single bowl of vines tucked in the hills between Ukiah and Anderson Valley where he is a partner in the vineyard. He farms two clones, vert and jaune, at around 1,500 feet, and the elevation shows: this is lean, crunchy and salty rather than fat, with melon, lemongrass