Johan Vineyard Maceration, 2023, 750ml

Description

Maceration is a skin-contact white blend developed to allow for creativity and experimentation in the cellar each year as winemaker, Morgan Beck, continues to play and explore the potential of many of the non-traditional white grapes in the vineyard. For the 2022 vintage, the Maceration blend was 100% whole berry destemmed and fermented for approximately 1 month on skins, the entirety of primary fermentation, then pressed at dryness and aged in neutral barrel. With the 2022 vintage, the inaugural amphorae was introduced to the Johan cellar, and skin-fermented the Grüner in this vessel – bringing an earthy base note to the blend. Fermentations and elevage were kept separate by variety, aged for 11 months, then blended and bottled in September 2023, unfined and unfiltered.

Grapes:  32% Grüner Veltliner, 26% Ribolla Gialla, 24% Kerner, 18% Friulano.

Farming Practice: Organic