{"title":"Fres-co","description":"\u003cp\u003eFRES.CO is winemaker Jack Sporer's vehicle for a simple idea: that better farming in Sonoma Valley makes better wine, and that growers should be rewarded for the harder, healthier path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Sporer grew up in San Francisco, spending weekends on his family's organic vegetable farm and vineyard in Sonoma Valley, where his uncle began making wine in 2000. After studying biology at Providence College, Jack returned home in 2012 for his first harvest, then worked vintages in France, Australia, New Zealand and Chile. He launched FRES.CO, short for the Fresh Wine Company, in 2019, and in early 2020 co-founded the Magnolia Wine Services custom-crush facility with his uncle Will Bucklin, where the wines are made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/fres-co\"\u003eFres-co producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"primitivo-fres-co-zinfandel-california-natural-wine","title":"Fres-co Primitivo 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eFres.co Primitivo is 100% Primitivo, the Italian clone of Zinfandel, sourced from Benguerel Family Vineyard in Kenwood, Sonoma Valley. The vines are own-rooted, dry-farmed, and grown on Los Robles series gravelly clay loam. Farmer Ross Cannard, son of Bob Cannard who grew produce for Chez Panisse, manages the vineyard without synthetic sprays or herbicides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinemaker Jack Sporer ferments with native ambient yeast, uses no fining agents or filtration, and adds only a small dose of sulfur dioxide at bottling. The wine is made at Magnolia Wine Services, the cooperative custom crush facility in Sonoma that Sporer owns and operates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wine shows red cherry, raspberry, blackberry, and black plum, with medium tannins and bright acidity. It reads as a restrained, food-friendly red rather than a high-extract, high-alcohol California Zinfandel. Sporer credits the farming and the dry-farmed, no-spray viticulture at Benguerel for the wine's clarity and freshness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFres.co highlights the grower's name on the back label of every bottle as a direct acknowledgment that the wine originates in the vineyard. The Primitivo is described by Sporer as his flagship wine and the expression that best reflects his sourcing and farming goals in Sonoma Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fres-co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37706256416967,"sku":"FRESPRIM19C","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/fres.co-primitivo-california-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186647"},{"product_id":"fire-fuego-orange-fres-co-natural-wine","title":"Fres.co Fire Fuego Orange 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eFire Fuego is a zero-zero skin-contact Sauvignon Blanc sourced from Denmark St. Vineyard on the east side of the town of Sonoma, in Sonoma Valley AVA. The site has been farmed by the Clouse family for six generations. Eric and Holly Clouse use no-till practices, permanent cover crops, and no synthetic pesticides or herbicides. The soils are fertile grey loam, left untilled to preserve structure and moderate vine vigor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter hand harvesting, the fruit was split across two tanks: one closed-top carbonic (CO2 added until ambient fermentation began) and one open-top maceration tank punched down twice daily. Both lots spent a combined 9 days on skins before pressing. The wine fermented to dryness with ambient yeast, underwent full malolactic fermentation with some lees stirring, and was aged 4 months in neutral French oak. No cold stabilization, no fining, no filtration. Zero sulfites added at any point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFres.co (shorthand for Fresh Wine Co.) is the label of Jack Sporer, who makes wine at Magnolia Wine Services, a collective custom crush facility in Sonoma that houses multiple low-intervention producers. Sporer began his career at larger commercial operations in Sonoma before launching his own label focused on regeneratively farmed Sonoma Valley fruit. One percent of all Fres.co sales is donated to Zero Foodprint, a nonprofit supporting agricultural climate solutions and soil carbon sequestration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wine pours a pale amber-gold from the skin contact. Expect citrus zest, grapefruit, and apricot on the nose, with ripe pineapple and a spicy backbone of white pepper. On the palate, light tannin from the skins gives texture without weight. Bright acidity and a dry, mineral finish keep it focused.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fres-co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38240201801927,"sku":"FRESORAN20C","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/fresco-fire-fuego-orange-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186449"},{"product_id":"fres-co-fire-fuego-orange-natural-wine","title":"Fres.co Fire Fuego Orange 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eFres.co Fire Fuego Orange 2024 is a dry skin-contact white wine made by Jack Sporer of Fresh Wine Co. under the Fres.co label, sourced from Denmark St. Vineyard in Sonoma Valley, California. The vineyard is regeneratively farmed by Eric and Holly Clouse, who use no-till practices, no synthetic pesticides or herbicides, and minimize irrigation and tractor passes. Hand-harvested Sauvignon Blanc is vinified in two tanks: one whole-cluster carbonic and one open-top maceration, for a total of 9 days before pressing. Fres.co Fire Fuego Orange 2024 is aged 4 months in neutral French oak and bottled with zero added sulfites at 12% ABV.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fres-co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51624357757144,"sku":"FRESCO-FIREFUEGO","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/fres-co-fire-fuego-orange-natural-wine-deslop.png?v=1784590380"},{"product_id":"fres-co-fire-chillable-primitivo-natural-wine","title":"Fres.co Fire Chillable Primitivo 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eFres.co Chillable Primitivo 2024 is a dry red wine made by Jack Sporer of Fresh Wine Co. under the Fres.co label, sourced from Benguerel Family Vineyard in Kenwood, Sonoma Valley, California. The vineyard is farmed regeneratively by Ross Cannard on own-rooted, dry-farmed vines planted in Los Robles series gravelly clay loam, without synthetic pesticides or herbicides. Grapes are hand-harvested, fully destemmed, and fermented with native yeasts with regular punchdowns before being pressed mid-fermentation. Fres.co Chillable Primitivo 2024 is aged in neutral French oak, bottled unfined and unfiltered with approximately 25-30 ppm SO2 added at bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fres-co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51624593588440,"sku":"FRESCO-CHILLABLERED","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/fres-co-fire-chillable-primitivo-natural-wine-deslop.png?v=1784590389"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/fres-co.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}