Margins Wine Mourvedre 2017
Product details
| Management number | 253563728 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$12.00 | Model Number | 253563728 | ||
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Mourvèdre from the Sattler's Family Vineyard, a 2.7-acre plot planted in 2009 in the foothills of the southern Santa Cruz Mountains at 266 feet elevation. The site sits within the Santa Clara Valley AVA but at too low an elevation to qualify as Santa Cruz Mountains. Sandy loam soils, hot and dry days, and a sharp diurnal temperature swing that preserves acidity in the grapes.
Winemaker Megan Bell destemmed the fruit entirely, macerated for approximately 10 days, and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in neutral oak. The wine aged 8 months in neutral oak with no fining, no filtration, and a minimal addition of 20 mg/L sulfur dioxide added the week before bottling.
The nose is layered: ripe dark berry, coffee, herbal wood notes, and a spiced chocolate backdrop. On the palate the wine is luscious and creamy with supple tannins, a drawn-out mid-palate, and persistent high-toned acidity that carries through the finish without cutting. Mourvèdre rarely gets this treatment in California, which makes this bottling a useful reference point for the variety outside its Southern Rhône and Spanish Monastrell contexts.
At the time of the 2017 harvest, the vineyard was in the early stages of transitioning toward organic farming, a process Megan Bell initiated in 2018 and completed by the 2021 vintage.
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