Chenin Blanc Lo-Fi wines, Santa Barbara 2023

Mike Roth & Craig Winchester, Los Alamos

One of the three Cabernet Francs produce every vintage.  The darkest and most savory of them all and from our home vineyard in Los Alamos.

Honeybear Vineyard is located in Los Olivos, Santa Barbara County, California and sits on a flat shelf overlooking the Los Olivos District. The fine, sandy loam with clay sub-soil makes the Los Olivos AVA particularly well suited for quality viticulture. The vines were planted in 2015 and field grafted in 2016. The spacing is 6’ by 2’, which is 2904 vines per acre, densely planted. The Chenin Blanc budwood came from the 40+ year old block at Firestone Vineyard, aka “Jurassic Park” on Zaca Station Road. They number 1500 vines. It is farmed using sustainable practices.

Hand harvested and sent directly to press. The juice was fermented and aged  in neutral French oak barrels for 6 months.All Lo-Fi wines are fermented via native yeasts and bacteria. Nothing is added, no nutrients, commercial yeasts, bacteria, enzymes, tannins or other popular fermentation agents. We added sixty parts per million So2  prior to bottling in keeping with our low intervention, “Lo-Fi” philosophy. 

Fresh, and low-intervention white wine, often sourced from the Jurassi park and Honeybear Orchard vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley. It features bright acidity, notes of lychee, melon, and pineapple, with a clean, mineral-driven, and slightly aromatic

Grape: Chenin Blanc

Biodynamic