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All Products • Spring 2026 • White • Honeymoon 2021

Honeymoon 2021

65% Colombard, 35% Chardonnay · California · 347 cases

Inhale slight and soft salinity while the light reduction greets you like an old friend. This wine has aged beautifully, the dappled acidity still creating that pop-rock like feeling on your tongue. We anticipate you’ll want to clear a rack in the fridge for more than one bottle.

750ml, 12% ABV

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Enjoy With

When in doubt, go French: buttery pastry with mushrooms, roasted chicken over potatoes, and lots of leeks.

Drink When

You’ve cancelled your evening plans in favor of a good book. Slip into something comfy and sink into something meaningful.

"If we could have one bottle of white on a deserted island, Honeymoon would be the choice time after time. The honey, brightness, and golden apple-y-ness that we love in our whites is in perfect balance here."

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Martha's Notes

The star of our Honeymoon is the 70+ year-old Colombard from dry farmed, head trained vines. When young, Colombard can throw a large crop and has largely been written off as a blending/filler grape, or has been used traditionally for distillation into cognac. However, with old vine age, dry farming, and by allowing a long hang time, Colombard can be as complex as its parent, Chenin blanc. The Honeymoon, to me, is always a layered wine, where I try to achieve some tertiary characteristics alongside brightness and fruit. Barrel fermentation, lees contact, and longer elevage to achieve these layers once again. Alongside Ricetti Vineyard Colombard, Honeymoon 2021 features Chardonnay from Dicesare Vineyard, which is located next to grower Pete Johnson’s Hawkeye Ranch and directly across from his family's Redwood Valley pear orchard. The Johnson’s continue the same meticulous farming at Dicesare: fully organic, dry farmed and tended by hand.

Specifications

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Vintage:

2021

Alcohol:

12%

Varietal:

65% Colombard, 35% Chardonnay

Vineyard:

Colombard from Ricetti Vineyard, Redwood Valley, Mendocino County; planted in 1948; head trained, dry farmed (non-irrigated), practicing organic vineyard; gravelly loam soils.

 

Chardonnay from Dicesare Vineyard, Redwood Valley, Mendocino County; dry farmed (non-irrigated), certified organic vineyard; gravelly loam soils.

Vinification Notes:

Colombard and Chardonnay harvested separately. Both pressed immediately, settled overnight, and then racked off gross juice lees to ferment in neutral oak barrique. We taste the juice lees during racking to determine how much to include (discarding overly bitter-tasting lees) and then re-distribute the lees evenly across all barrels. Aged in barrel, unracked on fine lees, for 9 months before blending and bottling. Unfined. Unfiltered. Sediment expected.

Serving Temp:

Cool // 45-55°F // 7-13°C // Take this bottle out of your fridge ~20 minutes prior to enjoying.

At Bottling:

(June 2022): 12% alc/vol · Free SO2 5 mg/L, Total SO2 21 mg/L ·  All wines are vegan.

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