Mahlon 2023

Origin: Geyserville, California
ABV: 12.3%
USNW Classification:?Natural
Varietal & Type: Arneis
Vintage: 2023

This wine comes from the older block of Arneis at Fox Hill Vineyard (the younger block find their way into the Ruth Feints). The older vines and thinner, rockier soils produce smaller clusters, smaller berry counts and relatively higher skin to juice ratios. Therefore Mahlon ends up being quite a concentrated, intense version of Arneis. 2023 Mahlon is at once textbook and surprising. Fresh and lemony, saline breezy and uniquely savory. Snappy yet textural, with unidentified little white flowers, bitter almond, sesame and miso.

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About the Winemaker

Evan Lewandowski

After working at Binner in Alsace for several years, Evan Lewandowski moved back to Utah to start making his own wine. Using fruit grown at Fox Hill Vineyards and Testa Vineyards in Mendocino county, Evan begins fermentation in California then transports his fermenting juice in a refrigerated U-Haul to his home in Salt Lake City where he completes the fermentation, aging, and bottling process.

When asked to express his viewpoint on organic winemaking, Evan responds: ��A winegrower working incessantly in his/her vines, with a mind focused both on the sky above and the soil below, not just the fruit zone, will naturally come to deeply know their vines and their specific place and inevitably seek to eradicate those things that destroy in favor of choosing to support and encourage life.? It must start with these connections in the vineyard. Wine made by these people, the ones earnestly and honestly seeking to know their farms, in the end will be organic wine to me.��

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