Stirm Wine Co. Cabernet Pfeffer Siletto Vineyard San Benito County 2022 750ml

Ron Siletto, a longtime icon of San Benito viticulture, is the primary source of Cabernet Pfeffer in San Benito County, where the variety is grown (and nowhere else in the world). In France it was known as Mourtaou/Mancin, an old variety from Bordeaux. There are less than 10 acres of it currently grown. The fruit for this wine was hand-picked in Sept '21. The grapes were given 15 days of 50% whole cluster, 50% destemmed maceration in redwood fermenters. About 1/3 was destemmed. After pressing and settling, the wine was racked into old barrels for 10 months' elevage on fine lees. Racked to tank a month prior to bottling. Unfined, unfiltered.