Early Mountain Vineyards 'Young Wine' Red 2022

Early Mountain Vineyards 'Young Wine' Red 2022Virginia is emerging as a compelling place for winemaking, but it is not without many challenges. The high rainfall levels there combined with the heat make for perfect conditions for fungus and rot. Hybrid grapes that have both native American disease resistance and European wine grape parentage help solve this problem without aggressive fungicide sprays. But it has taken winemakers with a thick skin (no pun intended) to get these hybrid wines, long

but it will be worth the effort

Natural wine doesn't really get much more natural than totally wild bush vines

highest-elevation plot

sturdy tannins to age for decades

They are outside the sherry DO

replanted this plot in 2016 that had been in their family for generations

Because there are no real benchmarks yet for these varieties you are very free in the cellar

The family biodynamically farms about 30 hectares of high-altitude ungrafted vines

but it will work with almost anything you want it to

Cal Cols is made by a couple in the Penedes who were marching to the beat of their own drum before the natural wine movement came along

They're grown on the northern

and a little reduction on the nose is matched with silky