2021 Accenti Verdelho 'Evina Vineyard'

100% organic Verdelho, a Portuguese grape rarely seen in California. This fruit comes from suitcase clones smuggled from the island of Madeira and grown in Tom Morgan’s Evina Vineyard in the town of Knightsen , just 2 miles from the San Joaquin Delta.The first press was whole cluster with juice divided between stainless steel tank + neutral oak for ferment.  2nd half got 3 hours skins and foot treading before pressing into neutral barrel. The two lots were blended before bottling, unfined/unfiltered with minimal So2; 12.5% ABV.