The grapes are picked and fermented using native yeast and 70% whole cluster, pressed at dryness and finished in neutral french oak barrels for 10 months. Lady of the Breakfast Wine: This Gypsy Girl is Changing the Face of Winemakers. Taxes and shipping calcuted at checkout. It's sampling vineyards close to harvest late at night in the dark with flashlights because that's the only time you can find to do so. Notes of pink lemonade, citrus popsicles & Rainier cherries. Breakfast wine is something everyone needs to experience! Location: Edna Valley, CA. 192 cases produced | 12. And of course, taking out our 1987 Boston Whaler to fish off of Avila or Morro Bay.
Lady Of The Sunshine Wine Cellars
I am currently working with Demeter to earn my certification for Chene Vineyards, which is a three year transitional process. Variety - 60% Sauvignon Blanc, 40% Chardonnay. Don't be afraid to ask questions and try new things! All of the Lady of the Sunshine wines are fermented with native yeasts and see minimal sulfur additions in neutral oak. El Rancho Carpentero is the brand— a local gem from Ventura. The one acre of wente clone chardonnay yielded 3 tons to the acre and was picked the first week of september.
Lady Of Sunshine Wine
Winemaker - Gina Giugni. Contact Lady of the Sunshine. What qualities do you look for in the wines that you make and the wines that you drink? Fortified and/or Sweet. Critical AcclaimAll Vintages. We love spending time out on the big ocean blue. Moving to the palate, I get notes of green apple, slightly underripe pear, baked pineapple, lime zest, olive oil, sea salt, and lightly toasted hazelnut and almond. Production: 192 cases. It helped bring the idea of terroir full circle for me, that's why I want to farm as purely as possible so that I can capture the sense of place for the roots of my wine. Being a true vigneron, immersed in every stage within the cycle has been what I have fallen in love with. The great thing about utilizing biodynamic philosophies, is that we do our best to utilize our waste streams to turn them into energy streams.
Lady Of The Sunshine Wine Country
The foundation of Lady of the Sunshine starts in the vineyard, based on the mantra, "Know your farmer" while focusing on vineyards that are farmed organically or better. It was originally developed by Rudolph Steiner in the 1920's in the post industrialization of Europe. We hear biodynamic a lot in wine talk. Pacific oysters and homemade fisherman's stew with a crusty loaf of bread. This is sharp and crystalline, with high-toned citrus and a piercing minerality. Gina picks on the natural acidity of the grapes and is looking at flavour development.
Lady Of The Sunshine Winery
My husband, Mikey, has always nicknamed me Lady, and Lady of the Sunshine was a name we had joked around with until it actually stuck. Grapes were foot crushed and soaked on the skins overnight before being whole bunch pressed the next morning. Lady of the Sunshine wines focus on organic and biodynamic farming. Read on to learn all about the young winemaker everyone is talking about! Gina and her husband, Mikey, run Scar of the Sea and Lady of the Sunshine together out of their winery in San Luis Obispo, CA. DesignationStolpman Vineyards. The ultimate goal is to make fun, fresh, what we call, breakfast wines, that are built on the mantra, "know your farmer".
The Winery At Sunshine
A bright and fresh Chardonnay with notes of olive oil cake, lemon zest and sea salt. Today's Wine: 2018 Chêne Vineyard Chardonnay. Most likely scouting vineyards and tasting grapes, checking on fermentations and picking out a (breakfast) wine to pair with lunch. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality.
So, you enjoy the view, some good tunes, and chit chat while sippin' a low alcohol, high acidic breakfast wine! It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity. Tell us all about it! We choose 4 wines per month, two reds and two whites- available for you to pick up starting the first of the month. Of course it's not always sunshine and rainbows, but the drive we have to work as hard as we do, is built on the foundation that we are very passionate about how and why we make our wines.