Ruth Lewandowski Wines 2022 'Mahlon' Arneis, Fox Hill Vineyard, Mendocino County

Item Number: 18538

UPC: None

Country: USA
Region: California
Sub Region: Mendocino
Appellation/AVA: Mendocino County
Estate Grown Wine: No
Vineyard Designation: Fox Hill Vineyard
Vintage: 2022
Grape(s): 100% Arneis
Type: Wine - White
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 13.2
Total Acidity: 6.5 g/L
pH: 3.55
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
Soil Type: Sandy, rocky clay loam
Elevation: 650 feet
Case Production: 225

Terroir Notes: This wine comes from the older block of Arneis (~30 years old) at Fox Hill Vineyard. The younger Arneis finds it’s way into Feints. Older vines and thinner, rockier soils lend smaller clusters, smaller berry counts and relatively higher skin to juice ratios. Therefore Mahlon ends up being being quite a concentrated, intense version of Arneis. 2021 Mahlon is at once textbook and surprising. It is fresh and lemony, saline breezy and savory. Snappy yet textural, with textbook little white flowers, bitter almond and miso. Historically a very difficult cuvée to make without added sulfur, this is one of the rare vintages where the wine provided that opportunity.

Winemaking Notes: Fruit was foot trodden in picking bins and saw 2 hours of maceration before bladder pressing. Natural primary fermentation occurred with no temperature control or fermentation aids of any sort. The wine underwent full native malolactic conversion. It spent 5 months on the lees with one racking before blending and bottling. It was bottled unfined and unfiltered. No sulfites were added at any point.