Malvasia Bianca Birichino 2023Alex Krause and John Locke founded Birichino in Santa Cruz in 2008. Drawing on a combined four decades of making wine in California, France, Italy, and beyond. They now source their Birichino grapes from a number of family owned vineyards, carefully chosen for their moderate, marine influenced climates and their minimal intervention approach. In production, they favour native fermentations, employing stainless steel or neutral barrels. There is

Their vines are planted at about 400-500m altitude

Flavours of dark fruit

Ripe plum and blackcurrant fruit with some spicy and woody oak notes

Quinta de la Rosa stands as a pioneering Single Quinta winery renowned for its exceptional premium wines and world class ports

we have had many wines from their range

and subtle nutty hints that follow through to the palate

Crafted using the traditional method

combined with modern viticultural techniques

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Owned since 2001 by Irish couple Brenda and Lochlann Quinn

They have created a fusion of the subtle creamy

with its decomposed granite soil and balanced continental climate