2022 - Big Valley Bombo - Light RedGrenache & Skin Contact Semillon Swan Valley Zero additions The big rooter returns, back more closely resembling its original guise. Our biggest volume blend by far this year, pieced together from various components of Grenache and, as always, a hint of skin contact Semillon for the crunch and texture, to create the ultimate summer libation. Of the Grenache components, the most notable is 1000lt of Qvevri fermented and aged wine made from the third

with the help of extended time on skins and his trusty qvevri that

Much like the Turbulent Juice this wine was racked and bottled without any additions

Our second go around with this wine

Like a refreshing Barolo or a red soave

5% oak elevage 38% carbonically macerated Grenache

In late August

514 Bottles Made

during which time the Chenin picked up a remarkable pink hue

exploding into a complex and multi-faceted texture bomb

melded with some exquisite textural almond meal on the mid-palate from the extended time on lees

The result is an electric pink oddity that is outrageously drinkable

It had become an incredibly intense wine