2022 Hollow Wines 'Sunset Orange'

100% organic and dry farmed Chardonnay (Wente clone) from the Gimelli Vineyard, right on top of the San Andreas fault line. Destemmed and natively fermented on skins for seven days before being pressed into flex tank eggs where they finished primary and malolactic fermentation natively. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. Zero sulphur additions- 15ppm free SO2.  12.13% alcohol. 

Delicious, light and very easy drinking, this isn’t a crazy funky orange wine. Crisp, bright and refreshing, with delicious peach and orange fruit, the Cienega Valley’s characteristic mineral quality, and balanced, smooth acidity complementing the richness of texture from the malolactic fermentation. Like an orange Creamsicle in a glass, but without the sweetness!

Hollow Wines is a newish natty California project from Woodson “Quinn” Hobbs, who grew up in Portola Valley, with his Aussie wife Alison and their daughter Mina. They currently live in LA but make the wine in Gilroy, sourcing fruit from organic vineyards up and down the state. Quinn not only has the Midas touch with wine, he’s also getting his PhD in global leadership and change so that he can help other wineries produce low-carbon wine that’s better for the planet and the people. To that end, Hobbs requires fruit sources to be organic. If you use Roundup anywhere on the property, it’s a firm no-go. “Roundup is a disaster for this planet,” he says. He considers himself a practitioner of No B.S. winemaking, which he equates to minimal intervention and using wild yeast with no adds other than some sulfur. Some might call it natural winemaking, but he prefers to say “simply good wine making.”