Free Your Mind

Vintages: 2018, 2019
Varieties: 50% Carignan (Contra Costa County) 50% Riesling (Arroyo Seco)
Alcohol: 13.0% by vol.

Free Your Mind embraces the very best of the weird ideas that flood the mind during harvest. Inspired by George Clinton and the Funkadelic, our present process goes something like this:

Let’s co-ferment red and white varieties and marry the varieties thoughtfully -the goal is to develop aromas beyond the sum of their parts. Skin-contact Riesling will play lead guitar and carbonic Carignan will be the rhythm section. 

Production: 

The winemaking process evolves with every vintage:

Last vintage (2018), we swiftly joined the two varieties together in the press after 12 hours of Riesling skin contact. This vintage (2019), we fermented Riesling on skins for 7 days, with daily pump-overs of freshly pressed post-carbonic maceration Carignan. We affectionately liken this progression to the wedding, followed by the honeymoon.

• Fermented with native yeast and bacteria

• Aged on lees for 2.5 months in stainless steel

• No sulfur added, produced without fining, filtration, addition or subtraction