Ruth Lewandowski "Naomi" Grenache Gris 2021

Ruth Lewandowski "Naomi" Grenache Gris 2021Notes from Evan Lewandowski: 100% Grenache Gris from 110(+) year old vines at the Historic Gibson Ranch in the McDowell Valley of Mendocino. I consider myself blessed to even step foot in this ancient vineyard. How it came to be that I get to pick this fruit and make wine from here is a mystery even to me. Naomi is our ode to elegance, our exercise in restraint and our white wine paradox.

It's not the worst news in terms of the region's ability to craft stupidly delicious

" Giovanni explained to me

The vines are from a 250 year-old single vineyard on granite and red clay that is ungrafted and not irrigated

with some nice floral top notes

Decant to drink now or age for a few decades

reductive red she had made in the past

It’s an amontillado

whose Natural Malbec we also are big fans of

flinty aromas are matched with fat and salt on the palate and notes of dried apple ring

Alexandre works biodynamically in his vineyards and eschews the use of chemicals save for very minor doses of sulfur at bottling if absolutely necessary

mouthwatering notes of black plum

From Mosel Fine Wines: " Unterstenberg N°12