Poco a Poco means little by little in Spanish. This is the philosophy farmer and winemaker Luke Bass takes when making the Poco a Poco wines. Everything about growing grapes and making wine is Poco a Poco (little by little). When a block of vines takes an extra few years to grow up the stake, it’s poco a poco. When each cluster of grapes is sorted by hand, it’s poco a poco. When the wine in barrel takes a month or two longer to finish fermentation, it’s poco a poco. Quality farming and thoughtful winemaking cannot be rushed, instead the Poco a Poco philosophy should be embraced.
The 2021 Carignane is from the Chapman Vineyard in Mendocino. The vines are over 40 years old, dry farmed and organically farmed. The wine was native yeast fermented and aged in neutral French oak barrels. This Carignane was bottled un-fined and unfiltered, the only addition was a tiny amount of sulfur at bottling. Structured and savory with dark fruit tones.
