The vineyards on the western edge of the Salinas Valley produce wonderfully aromatic grapes with fine acidity [the Malvasia sits 2.5 miles due east] which complement our usual old vine Cinsault, Mourvèdre and Carignane from the 1880s and 1890s, and 1920s, and some fresh-faced teenybopper Vermentino from Carneros. Hand harvested, and fermented native in stainless in one long, sequential co-fermentation, these traditional meridional varieties combine to produce a wonderfully prismatic, elevenesque wine with great perfume and sustain; familiar, yet achieving an extra Tufnelian* push over the cliff into – if you close your eyes and dream – the azure waters of the Mediterranean, and aromas of stone fruits, rosehips, violets and fragrant Provençal herbs Composition: Grenache 74%, Mourvèdre 9%, Carignane 8%, Cinsault 5%,Vermentino 4%