Winemaker, Matthew Rorick

“The Poor Ranch lies just outside of Hopland in Mendocino County, on an east-facing hillside made up of volcanic stones and sandy clay soil. The wine’s name is a nod to what many of California’s old-time growers still call Carignan; on this bottle it is a piece of viticultural linguistic heritage preserved along with the produce of the Poor Ranch’s 65 year old vines. Pure, sinuous and bracingly fresh, with a firm backbone to carry its bright and true fruit core well into the next decade. The fruit was hand-picked and is one of the only red wines which was de-stemmed for fermentation in 2015.”