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Ruth Lewandowski

Ruth Lewandowski Anos NV

Name: Ruth Lewandowski Anos NV
Brand: Ruth Lewandowski
SKU: lewandowski-anos
Price: 30.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$30.00 ~~Regular price:$34.00~~

Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied orange wine; aromatic and tropical with soft tannins and lively acidity
Grapes & Terroir: Montepulciano, Trebbiano, Friulano; organically farmed; gravel, quartz, and sandstone soils on uplifted former riverbed; Talmage Bench, Fox Hill Vineyard, Mendocino County, California
Winemaking: Each variety vinified separately with distinct methods (whole-cluster, maceration, skin contact and direct press); blended as co-ferment; unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 52-56°F; 10-15 minutes of decanting optional to open aromatics
Pairing: Fritto misto
Similar to: Light Friulano orange, carbonic Trebbiano, entry-level Vin de France pét-nat orange

Ruth Lewandowski Anos NV is a dry orange co-ferment produced by Evan Lewandowski of Ruth Lewandowski Wines from 100% organically farmed fruit at Fox Hill Vineyard on the Talmage Bench in Mendocino County, California. The wine blends three Italian varieties — Montepulciano, Trebbiano, and Friulano — whose shared "-ano" ending inspired the wine's name. Each variety is vinified separately: Montepulciano undergoes whole-cluster fermentation and bladder pressing, Trebbiano is destemmed and macerated through fermentation, and Friulano is split between direct press and skin contact. Ruth Lewandowski Anos NV is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without added sulfites.

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Ruth Lewandowski Anos NV

$30.00~~$34.00~~

Producer profile

Ruth Lewandowski

Ruth Lewandowski Wines was founded in 2012 by Evan Lewandowski, a winemaker who initially based his operation in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he had relocated to attend the University of Utah. The name of the project is drawn from the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament, a text that Lewandowski sees as a reflection of the cycles of farming, fermentation, and renewal that underpin natural winemaking. While the name evokes a specific person, Ruth in this context is a philosophy as much as a character: the idea that new life follows from what has come before, mirrored in the behavior of native yeasts and bacteria during fermentation.

Lewandowski began sourcing fruit from Mendocino County, specifically from Fox Hill Vineyard, at a time when the property was still owned by Lowell Stone and managed in partnership with Sam Bilbro of Idlewild Wines. Their collaboration extended to a shared farming initiative, Wild Ruth Farming, which oversaw both Fox Hill and Lost Hills Ranch in the Yorkville Highlands AVA. Evan moved his winemaking operations entirely to California in 2018, relocating to Healdsburg and sharing a facility with Sam Bilbro, and has been based there since.

The winemaking philosophy at Ruth Lewandowski centers on minimal intervention at every stage: native yeast fermentation, no added sulfites, no fining, and no filtration. Vinification methods vary by variety and are chosen to draw out what each grape does naturally, rather than to impose a style. The Anos cuvée is one of the estate's most distinctive wines and captures this approach in full: three varieties from the same vineyard, each vinified differently, assembled into a blend that reflects neither one grape nor one method but the character of the site and the season.

Today Fox Hill Vineyard is owned by Broc Cellars, though Lewandowski continues to source fruit from the property, maintaining the long-running relationship with a site that has been central to his winemaking since the label's earliest vintages.

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Wine region

California, United States

Mendocino County is located roughly 100 miles north of San Francisco along California's North Coast, covering a diverse landscape of coastal ridges, river valleys, and inland benchlands. It is one of California's most varied wine counties in terms of climate and geology, with AVAs ranging from the cool, fog-influenced Anderson Valley near the Pacific to the warmer, more continental interior valleys around Ukiah and Redwood Valley.

Fox Hill Vineyard, where the fruit for Ruth Lewandowski Anos NV is sourced, sits on the Talmage Bench southeast of Ukiah, between the towns of Hopland and Ukiah, just above the Russian River. The bench is an uplifted former riverbed, and the soils reflect that origin: predominantly well-drained sandstone and gravel with high concentrations of quartz and river rock, all of which warm quickly, shed excess moisture, and push vine roots deep into fractured rock below. The combination of stony soils and the heat of the inland valley produces intensely flavored fruit with natural acidity preserved by cool nights.

The climate at the Talmage Bench is broadly Mediterranean and continental, with hot, dry summers and cool evenings that moderate ripeness. The valley floor around Ukiah is warmer than the coastal AVAs but still benefits from the diurnal temperature swings that are characteristic of Mendocino's inland sites. This thermal variation is one reason Italian varieties, which typically prefer warm days and cool nights to develop both sugar and acidity, have thrived at Fox Hill since owner Lowell Stone began replanting the property in the late 1980s, replacing Chardonnay and Riesling with dozens of Italian varieties sourced from nurseries, friends, and imported cuttings.

Mendocino County has developed a reputation as one of California's most fertile grounds for organically farmed, Italian-variety wines, and Fox Hill sits at the center of that identity.

Frequently asked question

When is my order shipping?

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We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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