Description
Margins Wine is a small winemaking project of Megan Bell, a winemaker living and working in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Prior to settling on the central coast of California, Megan received her BS in Viticulture and Enology from UC Davis and apprenticed in wineries and vineyards in Napa, the Livermore Valley, the Willamette Valley, Central Otago (NZ), and the Loire Valley (France).
Region: Clarksburg
Grape: Chenin Blanc
Vineyard Size: 8.09 hectares
Soil: silty clay, loam
Average Age of Vines: 21 years
Farming: organic
Harvest: by hand
Winemaking: destemmed, 23 day spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts on skins
Aging: 5 months in neutral oak
Fining: none
Filtration: none
Added S02: 30 mg/L
