Martha Stoumen NV (2025) 'Patatino' Red Nouveau, Mendocino County
Item Number: 19845
UPC: None
Country: USA
Region: California
Sub Region: Mendocino
Appellation/AVA: Mendocino County
Estate Grown Wine: No
Grape(s): 35% Valdiguie / 29% Colombard / 23% Carignan / 12% other
Type: Wine - Red
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 11
Residual Sugar(g/L): less than 1 g/L
Total Acidity: Free 9 mg/L, Total 24 mg/L
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
Martha's Notes: This is our fourth Patatino, a wine that first celebrated the birth of my son, August (aka Patatino or “little potato” in Italian grandmother speak). This non-vintage edition is cheerful and unbounded, encouraging us all to set-aside preconceived notions and just play! Using carbonic maceration and co-fermenting red and white grapes from Ricetti's mixed block scream fruit salad, while a touch of 2024 aged Carignan grounds the blend.
Vineyard Notes: Carignan, Colombard, Valdiguié from Ricetti Vineyard, Redwood Valley, Mendocino County; head trained vines planted in 1948, respectively; dry farmed (non-irrigated), certified organic vineyard; gravelly loam soils.
Winemaking Notes: A portion of the Valdiguié was co-fermented with Carignan and white Colombard grapes from Ricetti’s mixed block. Roughly one-third Valdiguié, a quarter Colombard, a quarter Carignan, and the balance…something secret. Each lot completed whole cluster, semi-carbonic fermentation in stainless steel tanks and was then aged for 4-16 months in neutral oak barrique and neutral vessels. Unfined. Unfiltered. Sediment expected.