Alcohol: 12.9%
Grape(s): 100% Chardonnay
Location: Mendocino, California, USA
Tasting Notes: A bright and fresh mouthfeel frames this wine with loads of apple and citrus fruit on the nose. Old vines give lots of concentration and tank aging brings restraint and purity.
Notes: The Chardonnay grapes are manually harvested and then whole-cluster pressed. The juice ferments spontaneously in stainless steel tanks. The wine ages in one 300-gallon HDPE Flextank. It is bottled with low SO2.
Winery Story: Shaunt Oungoulian and Diego Roig produce two wines, Populis and Les Lunes Wine. In addition to making wine, they farm and manage over 8 ha of vineyards in Sonoma and Napa, and they are fully committed to organic farming, as well as restoring and preserving older and historic vineyards in those counties. Their Les Lunes Wines are made from these vineyards and the top sites from their growers in Mendocino County. The Les Lunes Wines show the more classic, refined, elegant, and ageable side of natural wine. Their facility is literally the basement of Shaunt’s parents’ house in Orinda, just east of Berkeley. This allows them to produce wine without the interference of other wineries’ yeasts or influences as well as allowing them to age their wine for multiple vintages before release if needed. They are absolutely 100% committed to farming and producing wines organically. They make no additions to the wines save for a small dose of sulfur before bottling if needed, as determined on a barrel-by-barrel basis.
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