Alcohol: 12.3%
Grape(s): 100% Riesling
Localization: Los Ositos Vineyard, California, USA
Tasting Notes: This 28-day skin contact old-vine Riesling smells like its traditional aromatic white counterpart, but ripe apricot, honeysuckle aromatics, and a pithy tangerine grip give this orange wine a textural advantage. Great acidity that Kick On Ranch is famous for brings balance to the wine, and it drinks completely dry!
The Domain: UNION SACRÉ IS AN HOMAGE TO ALSACE, FRANCE AND BEAUTY’S ODD ABILITY TO BUILD UNEXPECTED BRIDGES.
These wines are made for the tables of friends by two friends from different continents, Xavier and Philip, who arrived at the Central Coast from opposite ends of the Earth. Xavier is a WSET-certified enology degree holder from France, and Philip is a self-taught designer from Michigan who kind of misses living in a van.
Between the two of them, Xavier and Philip have 35+ years experience working in Central Coast wineries. Xavier has made wine with some of the Central Coasts most luminous wineries. Philip cut his teeth at Proof Wine Collective.
Buy 6 bottles of regularly priced (not on sale) wines and receive 5% off.
Buy 12 and receive 10% off.
Email sale wines do not combine nor count towards the above discount.
We would consider all wine to be "Natural". The term "Natural Wine" has the connotation of lacking a touch with nature. The winegrowers we champion are those who are farmers first. They seek to capture the uniqueness of the site (terroir) in the purest way possible. The product is as pure as possible and without wine-making flaws (brettanomyces, mercaptans, volatile acidity, etc.
Raw, in this case, we define as realistic and not manipulated. The winemakers use the least amount of intervention as possible. Wine should be made in the vineyard, not the cellar. The winemaker's job is to get the wine into the bottle in the purest form possible. There are additives that go into making wine, some are essential and some are not. Wines in this category do not have extra additives. They are free of added sulfur, or have the most minimal amounts possible in order to provide shelf stability for the consumer to experience the wine as the winemaker intended it to be.
