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Mendocino County Carignan 'Indica' 2024

Name: Mendocino County Carignan 'Indica' 2024
Brand: LIOCO
SKU: LIOCOindica24
Price: 31.0 USD
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If you’ve been following along, you know Indica was one of LIOCO’s breakout wines. We first put one to bottle in 2006, a blend of old vine Carignan + Petite Sirah. It was a time when few had ever heard of Carignan, but we loved the heirloom quality of those gnarly old vines enough to go out and built a market for it. The 2018 Indica sold out too fast, so we sought to make a few extra barrels in 2019. The additional fruit came from one of our stalwart growers in Talmage, Bartolomei Vineyard, home to 20 acres of dry-farmed, head-trained 1940s-era Carignan (long a source of our Rosé). As such, the 2019 Indica is a blend of three historic Mendocino ranches — Lolonis (circa 1942), McCutchen (circa 1960s), and Bartolomei (circa 1940s). The resulting wine is no quaffable “hipster juice,” but rather a serious California Red Table Wine more akin to the $40 reds from France’s southern Rhone. A blend of 93% Carignan + 7% Valdiguie, it smells like a mashup of blue fruits, sunbaked herbs, and like iron shavings. Throw a rack of spareribs in the broiler, give this wine 30 minutes in a decanter, and have at it.

-LIOCO

Mendocino County Carignan 'Indica' 2024

Mendocino County Carignan 'Indica' 2024

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