2019 Leo Steen "The Steen" Chenin Blanc Mendocino, California, USAABOUT THIS WINE: This wine underwent a few hours of skin contact before being whole cluster pressed and fermented in a concrete egg, using spontaneous yeast. To spotlight the age worthy complexity of Jurassics fruit, this wine spent 11 months in a concrete egg before being transferred to neutral oak for five more months prior to bottling. To allow the wine ample time to evolve and integrate, it was given an additional twelve months of bottle aging.

Mamuka Khurtsidze

The fruit is sourced from Côte de Beaune

partially destemmed (30%)

VINE: Sangiovese 15%

with far below-average rainfall

25% seasoned

0 ha in Condrieu

Pinot Noir on Clay

Cabernet and Roussanne

no warehouse

They are so called ‘négociant-vinificateur’ meaning that they buy grapes from winegrowers and vinify them to make their own wines

Aging took place in large barrels for 24 months