NEWFOUND WINES
Grenache Gravels
2018
- Nature
- Organic Agriculture / In Conversion
About this winery
Newfound Wines is a manifestation of a shared passion for wine and discovery between Matt and Audra Naumann—wine industry veterans and an agriculturally-motivated family. In 2016 we founded a 40 acre ranch, vineyard and winery in California’s Sierra Foothills to establish a legacy for our family and realize our dream to become first generation grape growers and independent wine producers. Our approach to the creation of wine comes from a place of humility and essentialism. We view farming...
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Product notes
The fruit for this bottling of Grenache comes predominately from Cemetery Vineyard, with remaining amounts from Scaggs Vineyard and Yount Mill Vineyard. Foot trodden, indigenous fermentation and roughly 35 days on skins before 12 months of barrel aging.
Tasting notes
Newfound Gravels Grenache does an excellent job of offering a delicious reminder of why it’s worth finding those precious vineyard sites that suit the variety. It’s a mouth-watering wine that’s also chiselled and has great structure. There is beautiful perfume of spice and savoury herbs, some bramble and an emerging floral note. The tannin is just tactile enough to remind you the wine will do well with food as well as a bit of age, and it carries with it a long, juicy finish. It’s simply a pleasure to drink and a good example of why Grenache has been such an important variety for the state.- Elaine Chukan Brown (Jancis Robinson 2020)