Ghostnote Wines Gist Ranch Graves Coast Blanc 2024 26REASONABLE Natal is the unoaked

Natal is the unoaked

and this Pineau d'Aunis comes from old vines (some over a century) farmed by Valerie Forgues

a red-wine guy from Burgenland

5 hectares of vines planted in the 1930s

Stellenbosch

Ghostnote Wines Gist Ranch Graves Coast Blanc 2024 26REASONABLE Natal is the unoakedThe name nods to Bordeaux's Graves the historic home of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon by way of California's coast. Ghostnote sources from Gist Ranch, a high elevation organic vineyard above 2,000 feet in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 17 miles from the Pacific. The grapes get Brad Friedman's signature low intervention treatment, and the resulting white blend reads classical and saline rather than tropical: think a Pessac Leognan inflected California white