Stagiaire Wine Sufficiently Whelming 2021
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| Management number | 253563453 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$15.60 | Model Number | 253563453 | ||
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Sufficiently Whelming is a co-ferment of Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay sourced from Lolonis Vineyard in Redwood Valley, Mendocino County. The Sauvignon Blanc block was planted in 1942 and is among the oldest known SB plantings in the country. The Chardonnay dates to 1946-47. Both are head-trained, dry-farmed, and grown on benchland red clay soils strewn with fist-sized rocks at approximately 800 feet elevation, and the vineyard has been farmed organically since the 1950s.
The 2021 season was marked by severe drought across Northern California. At Lolonis, the stress concentrated sugars and phenolics in unusually small clusters, but winemaker Brent Mayeaux notes the fruit reached that development at a low sugar level, with fully developed skins and no botrytis — a result of the dry conditions. Fermentation was smooth. The wine started in stainless steel, then aged nine months in used barrels.
On the palate, the wine opens with flinty, tight structure and gradually opens into citrus and tropical fruit. Mayeaux describes it as unwinding with time, and expects it to reward patience if cellared. At 12.7% ABV, it sits on the lighter side for California white wine, with genuine tension between richness and acidity.
Stagiaire Wine is a zero-zero project, meaning no additions in the cellar — no added sulfites, no adjustments. The grapes do the work.
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