Dirty & Rowdy Napa Valley Semillon 2019
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| Management number | 253563332 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$14.40 | Model Number | 253563332 | ||
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This is 100% Semillon from a single organically farmed, dry-farmed vineyard in Yountville, Napa Valley, sitting at approximately 120 metres elevation. The grapes were harvested early, at roughly 18–20 Brix, preserving natural acidity and keeping alcohol at just 11%. The vineyard sits in the Yountville AVA, where gravelly silt loams and alluvial soils over sedimentary bedrock, combined with marine fog and cool afternoon breezes off San Pablo Bay, produce a distinctly lower-alcohol, higher-acid style than the broader Napa Valley norm.
Winemaker Hardy Wallace used three separate vinification streams to build texture and complexity without sacrificing freshness. Seventy percent of the harvest was destemmed and macerated on skins for 24 days in open-top fermenters. Ten percent was fermented as whole clusters for 15 days before pressing. The remaining portion was direct-pressed into a concrete egg. All fermentation was spontaneous, using only native yeasts. The finished wine was bottled unfined and unfiltered, with a microdose of sulfur added at bottling.
The result is a structurally unusual California white: waxy and textural from the skin contact, yet lifted and saline rather than heavy. Notes of apricot, lemon peel, beeswax, and dried herbs come through alongside a distinct mineral salinity on the finish. At 11% ABV, it drinks more like a northern French or Hunter Valley Semillon than anything the Napa Valley is typically associated with.
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