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About the Wines

Monkey Wrench

In addition to Ohana, we also farm another vineyard on Hwy 46 West in Paso Robles where we grow Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Counoise, and Grenache blanc. We sell all of that fruit to other growers but in ’06 we decided to keep a little of the Grenache blanc for ourselves to make our first white wine. The grapes were harvested in early October at 23.5 brix and put straight into the press. We put the juice in stainless steel barrels, moved the barrels to the cold room and walked away. None of our wines are inoculated and we have never had an issue with that. We assumed that the Grenache blanc would blow through fermentation just like the rest of the wines. Wrong. It got stuck around 3 brix, and I definitely did not want to make a sweet wine. We inoculated it and let it rip. It went dry, then had to be cold stabilized. In general we found the white just needed more attention than our reds. With all of the drama along the way, we named the wine Monkey Wrench because as my husband says, it threw a “spanner in the works”. We bottled 127 cases in April 2007, released the wine in June 2007, and are sold out as I write this in mid July. We plan to make 250 cases this vintage (07).