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Fres.co Fire Chillable Primitivo 2024

Name: Fres.co Fire Chillable Primitivo 2024
Brand: Fres.co
SKU: FRESCO-CHILLABLERED
Price: 28.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$28.00

Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied red; fruit-forward and juicy, built for chilling, with fresh acidity and soft tannins from mid-fermentation pressing
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Primitivo; own-rooted, dry-farmed vines; Los Robles series gravelly clay loam; Benguerel Family Vineyard, Kenwood, Sonoma Valley AVA; regeneratively farmed
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; fully destemmed; native yeast fermentation with regular punchdowns; pressed mid-fermentation for lighter extraction; aged in neutral French oak; no fining, no filtration; minimal sulfur at bottling
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 54-57°F; no decanting needed; also enjoyable lightly chilled at 50°F
Pairing: Pizza margherita
Similar to: Carbonic Zinfandel, chillable Primitivo di Manduria, light Barbera d'Asti

Fres.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.

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Fres.co Fire Chillable Primitivo 2024

$28.00

Producer profile

Fres.co

Fres.co, or Fresh Wine Co., is a natural wine project founded by Jack Sporer, a Sonoma County winemaker who trained in conventional large-scale production before transitioning to low-intervention, regeneratively focused winemaking. He produces his wines at Magnolia Wine Services, a collective custom crush facility in Sonoma that houses a group of natural winemakers, allowing small producers to share infrastructure while maintaining independent practices. Sporer is described by peers as a central figure in Sonoma's emerging natural wine community, consistently cited by other producers in the valley as a reference point for craft, sound advice, and collaborative spirit.

The Fres.co model is built on two principles that reinforce each other. The first is a commitment to working exclusively with vineyards farmed without synthetic pesticides or herbicides, and preferably with additional regenerative practices such as no-till cultivation, dry farming, cover cropping, and in some cases rotational sheep grazing. Fres.co shares the financial risk of organic and regenerative transitions with growers, making the shift more accessible for small family vineyards that might not otherwise be able to absorb the costs of conversion without a guaranteed buyer.

The second principle is minimal intervention in the cellar. All Fres.co wines are fermented with native ambient yeasts, without commercial fermentation aids, and are bottled without fining agents or filtration. Cold stabilization is not used. Sulfur is added only at bottling and in modest amounts, typically 20-40 ppm, though some cuvées such as the Fire Fuego are bottled with zero additions.

Sporer's winemaking reference point is old California: restrained, site-expressive wines that are approachable young but have the structure to age. The Chillable Primitivo reflects this approach directly, using mid-fermentation pressing and neutral oak aging to produce a lighter-extraction style from a variety that can easily tip into heaviness if harvested too ripe or fermented to full phenolic extraction. Fres.co has also collaborated with Primal Wine on a limited skin-contact bottling sourced from Clarksburg, California.

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Wine region

California, United States

Sonoma Valley is one of California's most historically established wine appellations, running roughly 17 miles from the town of Sonoma in the south to Santa Rosa in the north, flanked by the Mayacamas Mountains to the east and the Sonoma Mountains to the west. Designated as California's second AVA in 1981, the valley has a longer winemaking tradition than almost any other region in the state, with commercial grape growing dating to the mid-19th century. The founding generation of California's fine wine industry, including the pioneers of Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon, established many of the valley's most important vineyard sites.

Kenwood, where Benguerel Family Vineyard is located, sits at the northern end of Sonoma Valley, where the valley narrows between the Mayacamas and Sonoma Mountain ridges. The town sits at approximately 320 ft above sea level, slightly elevated compared to the broader valley floor, with surrounding benchland vineyards at variable altitudes. This northern position benefits from additional moderation from marine air that funnels through the valley, providing slightly cooler conditions than the warmer, more protected southern end of the appellation near the town of Sonoma.

Los Robles series soils, the type found at Benguerel Family Vineyard, are gravelly clay loam with mixed volcanic and alluvial origin, providing good drainage alongside enough clay content to retain some moisture during the dry summer months. These soils are well suited to dry-farmed viticulture, where deep-rooted vines access subsoil water without irrigation. Own-rooted vines, meaning vines not grafted onto American rootstock, are increasingly rare in California, having survived phylloxera on naturally resistant or sandy soils, and are associated with lower yields and more concentrated, complex fruit. Primitivo, genetically identical to Zinfandel, is one of several Italian varieties that has performed well in Sonoma Valley's warm Mediterranean-influenced climate, producing darker, spicier, more structured wines than those typical of its southern Italian home region of Puglia.

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East Coast: 5 business days

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