2025 Palomino
Vaya a la Playa
Bridgehead Vineyard - Contra Costa County
Fermentation
and Elevage
Harvested on August 6th, 2025, these scraggly old clusters arrived at the winery cold with a mix of green and yellow colors. Every bin was stomped by foot and immediately loaded into the press for squeezing.
Once finished squeezing the juice in tank was transferred to neutral 500 liter barrels and put out in the sun to begin the native fermentation process.
After a couple weeks, all sugar was consumed and the barrels were topped up and moved to ambient cellar temperature to finish malolactic fermentation.
The 2025 Palomino spent 6 months in barrel and 1 month finished in stainless steel.
190 Cases bottled unfined and unfiltered.
100 Year Old Vines
grown in Delta Sand
The Bridgehead Vineyard, planted by Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese immigrants in the late 1800s, has seen countless trains, survived prohibition, and thrives on it's own roots despite phylloxera almost destroying the vineyards of the world.
Dry-farmed in delta sand, some roots reach over 40 feet below the surface. I liken my time spent here to a long walk on the beach and I'll even find sand in the lees once I finish racking barrel and tanks. That's terroir, baby.