2018 Haarmeyer Chenin Blanc 'Cresci' Borden Ranch

Region: Lodi < California Grapes: Chenin Blanc Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Certified organic farming, volcanic pink granite and quartz soils; dry-farmed, foot trod then whole-cluster pressed in an old-school screw press; fermented in an old puncheon on the lees, no stirring; rests here for 55 weeks before bottling; unfined/unfiltered with minimalSO2; 54 cases; 11.8% ABV Winemaker: Craig Haarmeyer Craig Haarmeyer has no formal wine education or training, but we think he’s making some of the most interesting and honest wines in California. His parents had restaurants and a wine shop, so he grew around the biz, and started fermenting anything and everything in college. That evolved into helping out at a family friends' winery in grad school, then realizing he could make wine himself.  He also slid slowly into natural wine making, he says, “because I made the modern wines for years and realized that those wines don't hold up, don't interest me, don't taste, smell or feel like the wines I gre