Thacher Relative Strangers Field Blend, Homestead Hill Vineyard

About the Wine

2.1 tons of fruit, sourced from the Homestead Hill Field Blend Block, were hand harvested on 8/25 and 9/7, at 20.1 and 23.2 brix. The block is planted to a collection of 11 different vareitals, each of which were widely planted before Prohibition. The two picks, with 50% whole lusters, underwent 7-day cold-soaks until the fermentations began, naturally and spontaneously. The varieties in this wine are Grand Noir, Mencia, Mission, Mourtauo, Negrette, Orange Muscat, Peloursin, Traminer, Trousseau, Valdiguie.