Martha Stoumen "Grist" Syrah 2021

Martha Stoumen "Grist" Syrah 2021

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Let yourself be moved. An inspired splash of Viognier scatters dried violets and tiny fragrant flowers across the nose. Syrah takes a second to show itself, like the friend that doesn’t want to come to the party, but ends up being the life of said party once they’ve entered the room. In other words: Big Scorpio Energy. Drink when you’ve been swept up by the evening or some passerby’s perfume. This bottle invites you to trust that all good mysteries unravel themselves with time.

This is Martha Stoumen's second Californian celebration of a traditional French technique, co-fermenting mountaintop Syrah with a small percentage of white Viognier grapes. When fermented together, the Viognier skins stabilize and deepen Syrah’s inky color (flavanols reacting with anthocyanins to form highly stable polymers) and brings added freshness to Syrah’s gamier notes. Of course the chemistry of why a dark wine becomes darker when adding white grapes wasn’t well understood centuries ago when this practice started in the northern Rhône valley, which is both a testament to legacy and the excitement of applied science.

Whole cluster (stems intact) co-fermentation of Syrah and Viognier sealed in a tank (semi-carbonic maceration). After opening the tank, the uncrushed fruit was foot-tread and pumped-over to gently extract tannin. Pressed prior to dryness and aged in neutral oak barrique and larger 500L puncheons for 29 months before bottling, and then aged an additional nine months in bottle before release. Unfined. Unfiltered. Sediment expected.

Grist Vineyard, Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County; planted in the 1970’s atop Bradford Mountain (1,000’ elevation); farmed according to organic principles; iron-rich red volcanic soils.


Country: United States
Region: California
Varietal: Syrah and Viognier

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