Once & Future Napa Valley Petite Sirah Palisades Vineyard 2022 SPDESSERT fermenting with native yeasts

fermenting with native yeasts

Mark Pisoni sources from the family's Pisoni and Soberanes vineyards — two of the most pedigreed Chardonnay sites in California — and treats the fruit gently: native fermentation

mineral and tense

and dark fruit sweetness to rye's natural spice

This non-vintage cuvée contains 40% of wines coming from the solera begun in 2004

Once & Future Napa Valley Petite Sirah Palisades Vineyard 2022 SPDESSERT fermenting with native yeastsJoel Peterson founded Ravenswood and effectively wrote the modern playbook on California Zinfandel. After selling Ravenswood, he started Once & Future to get back to the small lot, old vine, sensitive to site work he loved in the first place. As Joel puts it, Napa would be famous for Petite Sirah if it weren't for Cabernet. Palisades is a narrow vineyard tucked under the cliffs east of Calistoga, planted to old 8x8 head pruned vines that deliver black