Filipa Pato 'Flos Castanea' Bical 2022

Filipa Pato 'Flos Castanea' Bical 2022100% Bical macerated with chestnut petals, an old Portuguese method that is used in place of sulfur additions. It's fermented in a basket press and spends 2 weeks on its skins before aging half in barrel and half in amphora. Deep and sultry but also precise, elegant, and haunting. Only 1155 bottles made. Jonathan Kemp

On the nose

The vines are farmed entirely organically and harvested by hand

Bottled without fining or filtering and with only 20ppm SO2 added

and the Tiollier family has been a fixture in these parts since 1840

a beautiful region in Northern California

Christoph Heiss is making wines from selected parcels of his family’s 12 hectares of wines in the eastern Kamptal

The wine is pure and bright with wild red fruit and a cool

and complex oceanic mineral depth

harnessing the briny heat that comes off the Mediterranean Sea

Leaner and earthier

but still very refreshing

10% Vespolina coming from just 2 hectares of vines