2021 Juicy Lucy, Apple Grape Wine, Justice Vineyard

Walter Scott is focused on Pinot noir and Chardonnay, no question. These wines are what we think about all day, dream about at night, and plan for all year. But in addition to those two varieties, we have a couple of really fun, inspiring projects which allow us to do things slightly differently. Juicy Lucy is a prime example. This wine is made with heirloom apples we hand-harvested in the fall of 2021 and co-fermented in barrel with old vine Chardonnay, both from Justice Vineyard.

The original inspiration came from the infamous Brian McClintic, who through his own evolution became enamored with multi-fruit fermentations and promoting biodiversity within vineyards and regions. As we worked to create our grape-apple co-ferment, we manifested Brian’s vision of an unfiltered, biodiverse, and san-souf wine (without the addition of sulfur during the winemaking process). Though this isn't the normal practice in our cellar, gaining perspective by studying the many facets of winemaking help to broaden our ideas about winemaking itself. 

“You spend your life exploring, and at the end of the exploration you come back where you started and know it for the first time. And what a wonderful journey that is.” T.S. Eliot