Distillation: Double distilled in clay pots
Rather these vines are planted in very fine and red sand like face powder
fermented and aged in stainless steel
The qvevri was then closed and the new wine allowed to macerate for a month on skins
Racked off fine lees a month prior to bottling
2024 Kobayashi Syrah Sans Soufre, Washington, USA Quinta de Santiago Distillation: Double distilled in clay97% Syrah, 3% Viognier from WeatherEye Vineyard, located at the top of Red Mountain in eastern Yakima Valley. The Rhone varieties Travis and Mario source from WeatherEye are ungrafted, single stake trained, and planted at high density on rocky, fractured basalt soils. The wine was whole cluster fermented with ambient yeasts, and matured for 22 months in French oak (25% new) before bottling, unfined and unfiltered.