2013 Vinochisti Erbaluce 'E5' Cesar Marquez Fernet Branca

Fernet Branca

all 13 different grape varieties are also included

60% estate grown fruit from Olivet Ranch vineyard in the Russian River Valley

Pinot Gris was pressed

Dry Creek Valley

2013 Vinochisti Erbaluce 'E5' Cesar Marquez Fernet BrancaTim Mannings Vinochisti takes Erbaluce out of its DOCG comfort zone and into a skin contact, long levage register. The fruit (organically farmed) is handled with an extended maceration on the skins, then raised patiently in neutral vesselsold barrels and or cementto build texture without oak imprint; its bottled as Vino da Tavola to keep the cellar free of DOC rules, with minimal intervention and low sulfur. The 2013 reads savory and tensile: quince,