Handcraft Malbec

”handcraft wines celebrate the california home and italian heritage of third generation winery proprietor cheryl indelicato. As a nod to the vineyard-to-barrel field selections that found their place daily at the table when she was growing up the portfolio is blended to showcase the fruit resulting in full-flavored fruit-forward and food-friendly wines meant for sharing over a meal with friends and family. Winemaking grapes were harvested in the cool of the night to retain every ounce of flavor before being taken immediately to the winery where they were de-stemmed into small lot fermenters. After a brief cold soak the must was slowly warmed to enhance color and flavor extraction. The wine’s fermentation regime is designed to highlight malbec at its best-finding the perfect balance of malbec’s natural blue fruit flavors while maintaining its structured tannins. Once fermentation was complete the wine was aged on a combination of french and american oak to soften and integrate t