{"title":"Hobo Wine Company","description":"\u003cp\u003eHobo Wine Company is the brainchild of Kenny Likitprakong, a Santa Rosa native who has spent more than two decades building a business around a simple idea: making wine he can actually afford to drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenny grew up in Sonoma County, where his father Somchai managed the winery Domaine Saint George. He found his first winemaking job in the Santa Cruz Mountains in 1999 and launched Hobo in 2002 with two barrels of Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel. The \"Hobo\" name nods to his early years working from place to place, and to the fact that he owns no vineyards of his own, instead sourcing fruit from growers he has known for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/hobo-wine-company\"\u003eHobo Wine Company producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jeanne-darc-orange-folk-machine-natural-wine","title":"Hobo Wine Company Jeanne D'Arc Orange 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eFolk Machine Jeanne D'Arc is a skin-contact wine made primarily from Chenin Blanc grown on Merritt Island in the Sacramento River Delta, within the Clarksburg AVA. The 2020 vintage also incorporates approximately 8% skin-fermented Sauvignon Blanc sourced from a vineyard in Dry Creek Valley, northwest of Healdsburg. The grapes are sustainably farmed on the sandy loam soils of Merritt Island, where fog and cool delta breezes from San Francisco Bay moderate the warm Sacramento Valley climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinemaker Kenny Likitprakong destemmed the fruit into an open-top fermenter without chilling or inoculation. Native fermentation began naturally after about six days on the skins. Once dry, the juice was pressed off to neutral French barrels, where malolactic fermentation proceeded naturally to completion. No sulfur dioxide was added post-fermentation; a small addition was made only at bottling. The wine is unfiltered and unfined, with noticeable haze and sediment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2020 shows more tannin and bitterness than the 2019 vintage, consistent with the extended skin contact and the inclusion of skin-fermented Sauvignon Blanc. The color is a faded gold. On the palate it is savory and textural, with pithy citrus, lemon curd, dried herb, and a light peach character underpinned by gentle grip from the skins. Acidity is firm and persistent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanne D'Arc is named as a nod to the Chenin Blanc grape's Loire Valley roots, where Joan of Arc is historically tied. The Folk Machine label, launched in 2005 under the Hobo Wine Company umbrella, is Kenny's home for smaller-production, more esoteric bottlings from across California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hobo Wine Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40096017547463,"sku":"FOLKDARC20C","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/folk-machine-jean-d_arc-orange-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780186124"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/hobo-wine-company.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}