Alma Fria Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir Richardson Ranch 2024 Grower Champagne After spontaneous fermentation in cement

After spontaneous fermentation in cement

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sometimes with personal notes including what music was playing during production

the vines yield a wine of crushed stone minerality and snappy red fruit—pomegranate and cranberry notes dancing with lavender and herbs

co-fermented with wild yeasts

Alma Fria Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir Richardson Ranch 2024 Grower Champagne After spontaneous fermentation in cementRichardson Ranch is Alma Fria's home vineyard, planted in 2019 just 4. 5 miles from the ocean alongside coastal redwoods near Annapolis. The Richardson family has owned this stretch of timberland since 1876, and the site brings a distinctive forest floor character that the older Alma Fria vineyards don't quite have wet moss, redwood bark, bay laurel. Production is tiny. Carroll Kemp uses about 15% whole cluster and native fermentation, with very