2022 Broc Cellars "Amore Blendo" Red, Mendocino County, California, USAABOUT THIS WINE The Amore Blendo is a quintessential Italian table wine. This refreshing blend of Sangiovese Piccolo, Dolcetto and Ribolla Gialla creates a light bodied wine that pairs amicably with most foods or enjoyed on its own. This vintage is particularly special because all three grape varieties are harvested from Fox Hill Vineyards in Mendocino, which winemaker Chris Brockway has farmed since 2020. This years blend is full Italian too,

There is no temperature control in the cellar and usually the malolactic fermentation finishes early spring of the following year

comprised of our old parcels

Soils consist of both Kimmeridgian and Portlandian limestone and clay

Aurélien Chatagnier created his own domaine in 2002

loamy soils covered in pebbles

No chaptalization and acidification at all

planted on gravel-clay and gravel-sand soils

In the bottle you’ll find freshly squeezed cloudy pink grapefruit in colour

“Handcrafted work is not exceptional for the Ziereisen family

Most of the parcels are planted on sandy & clay soils on 24 hectares (52

Frantz has a degree in Oenology and cut his teeth working for Olivier Merlin in the Mâconnais

so much so that “Les Celliers de la Pauline” have rightfully earned a place in Sancerrois history