2019 Leo Steen Chenin Blanc 'Peaberry'

Region: Ukiah < Mendocino County < CA Grapes: Chenin Blanc Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming, dry-farming; old vines on Pinole gravelly loam soils soils; 76% whole cluster pressed to tank for cold settling, and 24% de-stemmed.  The pressed juice was racked to neutral French oak barrels for fermentation and the de-stemmed portion was fermented in puncheon then spent 10 days on the skins before racking and light pressing using a basket press; aged for five months with complete spontaneous malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels; bottled unfined/unfiltered with zero added SO2; 12% ABV; 300 cases Winemaker: Leo Hansen NEW VINTAGE! A Sonoma local now, Leo Hansen of Leo Steen Wines was a Somm in Denmark before coming to Healdsburg to somm at Dry Creek Kitchen and Cyrus in the early aughts.  He brings that well-honed sommelier palate, as well as the consumer perspective, to his own label, in which he focuses on the grape closest to his heart: Chenin Blanc.  So, naturally he