Tatomer Santa Barbara County Gruner Veltliner Meeresboden 2024 Wine Bar | Featured Red picked essentially down the road

picked essentially down the road

wild yeasts

which builds texture where sugar usually does the work

malo is blocked

no makeup: the Chardonnay goes into stainless steel and stays there

Tatomer Santa Barbara County Gruner Veltliner Meeresboden 2024 Wine Bar | Featured Red picked essentially down the roadMeeresboden means ocean floor, and it isn't a metaphor. The sites Graham Tatomer blends here sit on sand, diatomaceous earth, and loam, the fossilized leftovers of a seabed, a few miles from a very cold Pacific. That geology shows up in the glass as a salty, kelp like minerality running underneath the stone fruit and yellow citrus. Native yeast fermentation, mostly stainless with a little acacia wood, malolactic blocked to keep the acidity intact.