{"title":"Les Lunes Wine","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiego Roig came to wine sideways. He was weighing law school when a friend poured him something alive and strange, and that was it. He worked harvests in France and New Zealand before finishing a viticulture and enology degree at UC Davis. Shaunt Oungoulian arrived by a similar route: one vintage in Mendocino's Anderson Valley led to UC Davis, then to Burgundy, where he apprenticed with Philippe Valette in Macon and Julie Balagny in Fleurie. The two met at Davis, and in 2014 they launched Les Lunes from a cellar in Richmond, California, in the East Bay hills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoig and Oungoulian lease and farm more than 20 hectares of vineyards spread across Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino Counties. Every site is certified organic or in conversion. Rather than correcting deficiencies at the crush pad, they address them in the vineyard through targeted pruning, cover cropping, and compost application, building the kind of balanced fruit that requires minimal cellar work. Named sites include the historic Barra Vineyard in Mendocino, Linda Vista, Breuske Vineyard, and parcels in Los Carneros and the Venturi Vineyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/les-lunes-wine\"\u003eLes Lunes Wine producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"zinfandel-2016-les-lunes-wine-mendocino-county-california-natural-wine","title":"Les Lunes Wine Zinfandel 2016","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Venturi Vineyard sits in Calpella, a small farming community just north of Ukiah in Mendocino County. Larry Venturi is the third generation of his family to tend this site, which was planted in the late 1940s. The vines are head-trained and dry-farmed on Pinole gravelly loam soils — a former Russian River bed underlain by sandstone, shale, and quartz — under certified organic practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLes Lunes winemakers Shaunt Oungoulian and Diego Roig lease and farm their own vineyards throughout Northern California. Their cellar in Orinda is deliberately isolated so native yeasts from the vineyard drive fermentation without contamination from outside strains. No additions are made beyond a minimal touch of sulfur assessed barrel by barrel before bottling. The wine is unfined and unfiltered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mendocino County growing season around Ukiah averages 268 days, with warm days and cool Pacific-influenced nights pulling through a gap in the Coastal Range. That diurnal swing preserves the natural acidity that keeps this wine fresh despite its ripe, brambly fruit character. At 13% ABV, it sits at the lighter end of California Zinfandel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the palate, expect strawberry and cranberry alongside notes of forest floor and briar. The wine has a mineral edge that reflects the gravelly, river-stone soils of the Venturi site, and finishes with clean acidity rather than residual sweetness or heat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Les Lunes Wine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12968577269815,"sku":"LELUZINF16C","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/zinfandel-2016-les-lunes-wine-mendocino-county-california-natural-wine.jpg?v=1780682778"},{"product_id":"cabernet-sauvignon-les-lunes-natural-wine","title":"Les Lunes Wine Cabernet Sauvignon 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eLes Lunes Cabernet Sauvignon is a red natural wine made from a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from Sonoma Valley and Alexander Valley, California, and some other classic Bordeaux grapes – 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc. All grapes were hand-harvested and vinified separately. Each of the red wines were destemmed and gently macerated at cool temperatures for 4-14 days. The Millen and Pyaleh Vineyard wines were made as rose. The wines were then aged separately for 9 months in a combination of neutral oak and flextanks at which point the components were blended and 15ppm of sulfur was added. The wine was bottled without fining or filtration in early July, 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Les Lunes Wine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42531376070872,"sku":"LUNESAUV20C","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/les-lunes-cabernet-sauvignon-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780184751"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/les-lunes-wine.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}