Margins Pinot Noir Santa Cruz Mountains 2023

Margins Pinot Noir Santa Cruz Mountains 2023Megan Bell of Margins Wine is not just a great winemaker, but a person with many thoughtful insights on how to create more equity in the wine industry. Her path to winemaking was not typical. She knew she wanted to work outdoors so she enrolled in the UC Davis winemaking program at the age of 18, with no wine background. She had been working in outdoor education but figured she wasn't going be to able to make a living teaching kids about nature.

never using any sulfur

hint of a lactic note

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but she makes wines in her own distinctive way with her own vines and cellar

mouth-filling meatiness

Here we have a 100% Xinomavro  with a gravitas that is reminiscent of Piedmont

The most recent vintage I tasted is certainly my favorite

just like Mosel Riesling

Fermented whole-cluster and aged in neutral barrels for 12-15 months

Monovarietal (Errezile)

Subtle aromatics with clove and soy sauce are matched with blueberry skins

after Christian was fired from his job as an instructor of oenology for basically telling students how to make natural wine (the term didn't exist then)