Las Jaras Wines 2025 'Glou Glou' Red, Mendocino County
Item Number: 24143
UPC: None
Country: USA
Region: California
Sub Region: Mendocino
Appellation/AVA: Mendocino County
Estate Grown Wine: No
Vintage: 2025
Grape(s): 44% Carignan / 41% Zinfandel / 12% Petite Sirah / 3% Vermentino
Type: Wine - Red
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 13.6
Viticulture: Practicing Organic
Vineyard & Vintage Notes: Grapes come entirely from the Gary Ventury Vineyard in Menodcino County. The vineyard is organically farmed. The 2025 vintages was marked by a cool spring with a lot of moisture in the soil. This delayed bud break. The growing season was quite cool and allowed for even ripening which resulted in fruit with bright acidity and fine tannins.
Winemaking Notes: For Glou Glou, Las Jaras prefers bigger berries, which result in wines with less tannin extraction. 2025 was a vintage with good sized berries, so they were not so afraid of over-extraction in the wines. To make this light style red wine Las Jaras used many different vinification methods including carbonic maceration, traditional skin maceration, and what they call reverse saignée. The goal is always to make a layered cohesive blend and build complexity by combining many small lots; 17 in this case. A few of the lots were fermented with carbonic maceration, a gentle process that helps to keep early harvest wines from becoming too tannic. In those cases, after 12 days of cool carbonic maceration, they heated up the tanks and pumped them over for two days before pressing the juice off its skins and fermenting natively in tank. Reverse saignée is when tannic red grape varieties are whole cluster pressed before that juice is added to a red wine fermenter of the same grapes. This is a way to increase the juice to skin ratio to make a lighter red wine. Then, to keep the wine bright and fresh, about one third of the lots were aged in barrels and the rest were aged in stainless steel tanks. This wine received a small amount of sulfur prior to bottling. Las Jaras filters this wine because it really makes the fruit pop and it allows them to get by with very little sulfur use.
Tasting Notes: Glou Glou begs to accompany your favorite tomato sauce or to complement the char of anything done on the grill. Serve it slightly chilled, and you will be the hero of your next backyard barbecue. This is an incredibly unfussy, refreshing red wine and a tonic to long summer days and the heat of the grill. On the nose, you’ll get black plum, red licorice, and raspberry with undertones of clove and hawthorn. The palate is intense and fleshy with flavors of red plum, hibiscus, pomegranate, and cocoa powder and a playful spiciness on the finish.