Folk Machine Redwood Valley Valdiguie 2024 Esthers The result brims with character—green

The result brims with character—green apple skin

with the rest coming from vineyards still undergoing the three year transition from conventional to organic farming

it reveals violets

Her Villages-level Gamay is sourced from the granite-rich slopes around Saint-Etienne-des-Oullieres

Folk Machine Redwood Valley Valdiguie 2024 Esthers The result brims with character—greenValdiguie is the grape California spent decades calling Napa Gamay a misidentification finally corrected by a French ampelographer in 1980. The vines here are old (more than a century in some blocks), CCOF organic, and rooted in Mendocino's Redwood Valley. Fermented in stainless, bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur, and clocking in around 11. 5 percent alcohol, this is a chillable, glou glou red with bright tart berry fruit and a savory