Broc Cellars Release Party
Wine Tasting
Friday, November 22nd
Le Petit Bijou
These are some of the most exciting
wines we've had all year!
Foot Stomped
Italian Inpired
Boutique California
Call 256-964-7980 to Reserve
Broc Cellars Wine Tasting
Le Petit Bijou
Friday, November 22nd
4pm - 6pm, $20
With Special Guest, Robert Gunn of Pinnacle Imports
256-964-7980 to Reserve
2023 Broc Cellars Arneis, Foxhill Vineyard, Mendocino County, California $33.99
Tasting Notes: delicate notes of poached pear and refreshing lemon water, combining rich fruitiness with a bright, citrusy finish.
THE STORY: An intriguing medium-bodied white with humble aromatics, we’re excited to unleash this tantalizing Italian white! Arneis grows well at Fox Hill, our vineyard in Mendocino County, where hot beaming days echo the grape’s native homeland of Piedmont in Northern Italy. We harvested the Arneis in mid-September and kept vinification simple. The grapes saw a light footstomp and then headed directly to the press. We fermented the Arneis and aged in stainless tank for 7 months. Refreshing with good-natured acidity, the Arneis will pair well with delicate sea food, prosciutto, or hearty citrus-y salads.
FUN FACT: Arneis means “Little Rascal” in Piemontese.
VARIETIES: 100% Arneis
LOCATION: Fox Hill Vineyard
2023 Broc Cellars Vermentino, Foxhill Vineyard, Mendocino County, California $33.99
Tasting Notes: Fennel, zesty lime peel, and a hint of black pepper
THE STORY: This skin contact Vermentino is a new one for us from Fox Hill Vineyard, our estate in Mendocino. It saw just a kiss of skin contact, which gives the wine a subtle structure that is perfect for lighter meat dishes and hearty pastas. One of our staff members took a sip and declared it “the perfect white wine for pizza!” We couldn’t agree more.
The Vermentino was destemmed and macerated on the skins for two days. We tasted the must daily to monitor the progression of skin contact and pressed it at just the right moment. The Vermentino fermented in stainless tank and then settled in to age in concrete tank for seven months.
FUN FACT: The two stones on the label are grinding stones found at Fox Hill that were used by indigenous americans to grind acorns.
VARIETIES: 100% Vermentino
LOCATION: Fox Hill Vineyard - Mendocino
FARMING PRACTICES: CCOF Certified Organic
2023 Broc Cellars Rosato, Foxhill Vineyard, Mendocino County, California $25.99
Tasting Notes: Strawberry Margarita, Sage, Pennyroyal
THE STORY: A deeper, more generous and versatile Italian rosé. Rosato for us is a four-season wine with more color than your typical rosé. This is a fun rosato that balances deep fruits with a slight savory structure that makes it an easy pairing for food. We immediately foot stomped and pressed the Montepulciano grapes into stainless tank to naturally ferment and age for six months. All grapes come from Fox Hill, our certified organic vineyard in Mendocino.
FUN FACT: The cellar crew and staff’s nickname for the Montepulciano is “Monty P”.
VARIETIES: 95% Montepulciano, 5% Sangiovese
LOCATION: Fox Hill Vineyard
2023 Broc Cellars Negroamaro, Foxhill Vineyard, Mendocino County, California $32.99
Tasting Notes: Elderflower, earl gray, lime soda water
THE STORY: A deep rosé-like expression of Negroamaro. Typically, we weave it into our Amore Rosso blend each year to give it a little aromatic lift. However, this year we loved the color, texture and fruit so much we knew it needed its own time to shine.
The grapes were lightly foottread and kept on the skins for two days. After it picked up a beautiful color from the skins, we pressed it into our large oval Hungarian oak barrique. It naturally fermented and aged in the oak vessel for seven months.
FUN FACT: Negroamaro is a drought-resistant grape mostly found in Southern Italy and often is used as a blending grape.
VARIETIES: 100% Negroamaro
LOCATION: Fox Hill Vineyard
2023 Broc Cellars Amore Blendo, Foxhill Vineyard, Mendocino County, California $29.99
Tasting Notes: Strawberry lime popsicle, raspberry slushy
THE STORY: The Amore Blendo is a quintessential Italian table wine that has a special new blend of red and white grapes. This vintage of the Blendo is a freshly layered mix of Grignolino, Erbaluce, Nebbiolo, Dolcetto and Freisa, which all live at our Fox Hill Vineyard in Mendocino County. All the grapes in this blend are historically grown in Italy’s Piemonte region. We fermented the Blendo in two of our concrete cubes.
Immediately after the grapes were brought in, we layered the whole cluster Dolcetto, Erbaluce, Nebbiolo and Grignolino into the tank parfait-style for carbonic maceration. This is when the alcoholic fermentation starts within each individual berry, a process that minimizes tannins and maximizes fruit-forward notes in the wine. It underwent carbonic fermentation for 10 days before we pressed it back into concrete to age for seven months. We blended in the Freisa, which we destemmed and pressed after a week of skin maceration and daily punchdowns, shortly after it finished fermentation.
FUN FACT: Concrete fermentation and aging focuses fruit on the front of the palate- making the wine taste more fresh early on in the aging process. We love how it expresses this wine.
VARIETIES: 32% Grignolino | 23% Erbaluce | 16% Nebbiolo | 12% Freisa | 12% Dolcetto | 5% Montepulciano
LOCATION: Fox Hill Vineyard
2023 Broc Cellars Grenache Gris, Mendocino County, California $32.99
Tasting Notes: Strawberry, lavender honey, ras el hanout
THE STORY: The Grenache Gris is a wine and grape that amazes us every vintage. This year it’s a beautiful deep amaranth with a quenchable, farmstand fruit palate. The color and even the body vary greatly year-to-year depending on how the canopy develops over the growing season and how we fermented it. This year we explored different fermentation styles and vessels. For some of the Grenache Gris, we layered it into a concrete tank to undergo carbonic maceration for nearly two weeks. The remaining grapes saw a traditional footstomp and three-day maceration before pressing it all together. We divided fermentation and aging into some concrete tank and the rest in two of our sandstone jarres. The result is a wine that has the acid and buoyancy of a rosé, with a backbone of a light red wine.
The Grenache Gris hails from Gibson Ranch, in McDowell Valley just inland of the town of Hopland in Mendocino County, where most of their Grenache vines are more than 110-years-old. Their age really shows as the grape skins can vary widely in color depending on the year and harvest from sun-soaked pale to darker tones closer to Grenache Noir.
FUN FACT: Vines at Gibson Ranch are more tree-like, stretching over six feet tall.
VARIETIES: 100% Grenache Gris
LOCATION: Gibson Ranch - McDowell Valley AVA
FARMING PRACTICES: Organically grown grapes