Enzo

Vintage: 2020
Varieties: 100% FREISA (SAN BENITO COUNTY AVA, TRES PINOS, CA)
Alcohol: 12.3% by vol.

Enzo is a 0/0 pet-nat of carbonic freisa - a lambrusco and supercar-inspired fast red bubbly named for Enzo Ferrari.

Ferrari water. A shared love for traditional and obscure Italian varieties brought us to the Siletto Family Vineyards in San Benito County. We weren’t familiar with Freisa, but it’s elongated, almost XL-mulberry cluster morphology made quite an impression from afar. We pulled an early season vineyard sample that yielded the most electric, watermelon-colored, strawberry-scented juice. It was an instant indicator that we had a strong candidate for the sparkling red wine we set out to create.

Production: 

• Freisa was picked at 20.5* Brix on September 12 - nearly a month earlier than in 2019 at similar harvest chemistry. Whole clusters underwent 2 weeks of carbonic maceration before being pressed to tank and fermented dry by native yeast and bacteria.

• We racked the wine early off of primary lees to maintain as much viable microflora as possible prior to bottle re-fermentation.

• We blended in a small amount of frozen Freisa juice that we had reserved from pressing and bottled the wine under crown cap.

• No sulfur or other additions were added and this wine was bottled without fining, filtration, or disgorgement.