Description
Old World Winery is a small, family owned and operated winery. Using grapes from our 100 year old organic vineyards, we create “natural wines” that reflect our family history and the traditional winemaking (old world) practices in Sonoma County.
Pastoral winemaker and proprietor, Darek Trowbridge, has 20+ years of hands on experience in the art and science of vineyard management, grape production, and natural winemaking. His passion is inviting nature into his winemaking. His processes are simple and direct and eliminates the need for any manufactured (man made) chemicals. This process involves effort and shepherding but not manipulation.
Region: Russian River Valley
Grape: Abouriou
Soil: creekside loam with a shale sub-strata
Average Age of Vines: 92 years
Farming: Biodynamic, Regenerative
Harvest: by hand
Winemaking: Col Fondo. The whole clusters are foot stomped, allowed around 2 days of maceration.This base wine is allowed to age for 12 months which brings us to the next season when we have fresh juice from the same block. That fresh juice is added and the wine is bottled. The sparkling occurs naturally in the bottle in the second fermentation of juice.
Aging: base-wine aged 12 months
Fining: none
Filtration: none
Added SO2: none
Misc: Abouriou is a Basque variety. These gnarly, ancient vines, planted by Darek’s great grandfather in 1930, are the last remaining block of Abouriou in the USA.
