2020 Far Mountain 'Fission' Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma Valley, USA Marie-Charlotte Pinelli and Rocche dell’Annunziata

and Rocche dell’Annunziata

11 botanicals including cannonball watermelon

then aged for about two years in large Slavonian oak casks before a gentle bottling

A blend to explore the potential of Carignan

and élevage is long—typically in neutral to lightly used oak—with minimal intervention

2020 Far Mountain 'Fission' Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma Valley, USA Marie-Charlotte Pinelli and Rocche dell’AnnunziataFar Mountain the personal work of biodynamic consultants Rodrigo Soto and Mai Errazuriz, rooted in the high elevation, dry farmed sites of Sonomas isolated Moon Mountain AVA. Fission comes from their parcel in Alta Vista, a historic vineyard planted in the 1930s with now rare terraces of vines that follow the natural contour of the mountainside. This is Cabernet at its boldest, with dense, inky fruit and a bit of new oak; but the volcanic basalt and