Tatomer Santa Barbara County Gruner Veltliner Meeresboden 2024 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 Sardinia's great white grape

Sardinia's great white grape

mimicking Barolo's craft

salmon-pink color

where the nutrient-starved soil keeps the vines struggling and the fruit intense

low-tannin red built for porch chairs and pizza nights rather than swirling and contemplating

Tatomer Santa Barbara County Gruner Veltliner Meeresboden 2024 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 Sardinia's great white grapeMeeresboden 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.