Martha Stoumen NV (2025) 'Patatino' Red Nouveau, Mendocino County

Item Number: 19845

UPC: None

Country: USA
Region: California
Sub Region: Mendocino
Appellation/AVA: Mendocino County
Estate Grown Wine: No
Grape(s): 35% Valdiguie / 29% Colombard / 23% Carignan / 12% other
Type: Wine - Red
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 11
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
Soil Type: Gravelly loam
Case Production: 193

Tasting Notes: Patatino brings the refreshment, full stop. A healthy dose of Ricetti Vineyard Valdiguié and Beaujolais Nouveau-style treatment in the cellar yield electric raspberry colors in the glass. Embrace aromas of hibiscus, fir and wild licorice, and let them mingle with blood orange and raspberry leaf tea on the palate.

Martha's Notes: This is our fourth Patatino, a wine that first celebrated the birth of my son, August (aka Patatino or “little potato” in Italian grandmother speak). This non-vintage edition is cheerful and unbounded, encouraging us all to set-aside preconceived notions and just play! Using carbonic maceration and co-fermenting red and white grapes from Ricetti's mixed block scream fruit salad, while a touch of 2024 aged Carignan grounds the blend.

Vineyard Notes: Carignan, Colombard, Valdiguié from Ricetti Vineyard, Redwood Valley, Mendocino County; head trained vines planted in 1948, respectively; dry farmed (non-irrigated), certified organic vineyard; gravelly loam soils.

Winemaking Notes: A portion of the Valdiguié was co-fermented with Carignan and white Colombard grapes from Ricetti’s mixed block. Each lot completed whole cluster, semi-carbonic fermentation in stainless steel tanks and was then aged for 4-16 months in neutral oak barrique and neutral vessels. Unfined. Unfiltered. Sediment expected.