Broc Cellars - Love Red (2018)
VARIETAL: 77% Carignan, 15% Valdiguié, 8% Syrah
LOCATION: North Coast, Mendocino + Solano County Green Valley
ALCOHOL: 12.5%
WINEMAKER’S NOTES:
The Love Red grapes are harvested early to highlight the fruit and preserve the acidity. The Carignan is a combination of whole cluster and destemmed fruit from four 70 year-old dry farmed vineyards. The Valdiguié and Syrah were whole cluster. The wine was aged in a combination of neutral French oak barrels and concrete tanks.
- About the Winemaker
- Tasting Notes
- Pairings
We started making our Love Wines because we want to provide a more affordable everyday drinking wine to a larger market while still espousing the key tenets we believe in --- minimal intervention and sustainable farming. The Love wines are larger production blends by design. We still use only native yeasts and bacteria for fermentation with no additives or adjuncts, but we do choose to use trace amounts of SO2 at bottling. Each of the Love blends contain grapes from vineyards with varying degrees of intervention and the vineyards and blends can change with each vintage.
Cherry, Blackberry, Earthy
Pork, Duck, Hard Cheese
About the Winemaker
We started making our Love Wines because we want to provide a more affordable everyday drinking wine to a larger market while still espousing the key tenets we believe in --- minimal intervention and sustainable farming. The Love wines are larger production blends by design. We still use only native yeasts and bacteria for fermentation with no additives or adjuncts, but we do choose to use trace amounts of SO2 at bottling. Each of the Love blends contain grapes from vineyards with varying degrees of intervention and the vineyards and blends can change with each vintage.
Tasting Notes
Cherry, Blackberry, Earthy
Pairings
Pork, Duck, Hard Cheese