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the history of our name resides in the south of italy. however, the inspiration for the wine comes from the north. the massican wines are a blend of grape varieties with the hope of promising a new, unique approach of what white wine could be - modern, spirited, different - taking the best of what california vineyards have to offer and approaching the winemaking with intellectual verve and passion.
we harvested four grape varieties in and around napa valley in 2010 - two north east italian white varieties, tocai friulano and ribolla gialla, coupled with chardonnay and sauvignon blanc. we made four wines channeling the style and the blends made famous by such wineries as jermann, miani, vie di romans, abbazia di novacella, zuani, lis neris, venica & venica and volpe pasini, to name a few. the wines in 2010... |