{"title":"Toshokan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe name Toshokan means library in Japanese. To us, winemaking is a lot like curating a library. Except instead of dealing with human knowledge, we’re dealing with place, time, and people. Each bottle of wine is a window into the vineyard site and broader region, the weather patterns during the vintage, and the people that farm the grapes and make the wine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn keeping with this idea, most of our bottlings are single-vineyard, and we only source grapes from thoughtful, conscientious growers in special places throughout Northern California. In the cellar, we take a minimalist approach to keep our wines pure and expressive of site: all our wines are spontaneously fermented by the wild yeasts and bacteria naturally present on the grapes and we add very little sulfur. Not surprising given our winemaker Tim got his start at Donkey \u0026amp; Goat and Matthiasson.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur wines are lower in alcohol and meant to be enjoyed with friends and food.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTim Sakhuja \u0026amp; Ayaka Nonaka\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(source: Toshokan)\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"napa-valley-ribolla-gialla-toshokan-natural-wine","title":"Toshokan Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eToshokan Napa Valley Ribolla Gialla is a skin-contact natural wine (orange wine) made from 100% Ribolla Gialla grapes. Winemaker's notes: dried apricots, sour cherry pit, nutmeg, citrus pith. \"This wine is made from the venerable Bengier (formerly Vare) Vineyard, one of the first (if not the first) plantings of Ribolla Gialla in California. We made two completely different styles of Ribolla Gialla in 2020, a white wine and a skin-fermented wine. This is our skin-fermented version. It’s an exciting and thought-provoking wine that’s excellent with flavorful food.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wine was fermented whole-cluster in open-top containers. Punched down by hand twice daily. After pressing, the wine was aged “sous voile” in partially filled neutral French oak barrels for 10 months without ever being topped, to encourage the development of a veil of surface yeast. This technique contributes spice and nuttiness and helps soften the tannic nature of skin-fermented Ribolla. Sulfured ever so lightly several weeks after pressing.\" (source: Toshokan)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toshokan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42447623225560,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/products\/toshokan-wine-napa-valley-ribolla-gialla-natural-wine-primal-wine.jpg?v=1780184872"},{"product_id":"napa-valley-chardonnay-toshokan-natural-wine","title":"Toshokan Napa Valley Chardonnay 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eToshokan Napa Valley Chardonnay is a white natural wine made from 100% Chardonnay grapes. Winemaker's notes: Electric acidity, crushed seashells, apple, ripe melon, pineapple. Refreshingly low in alcohol. This is the wine I want at my dinner table day in and day out. I first worked with fruit from the Linda Vista Vineyard in 2018 at Donkey \u0026amp; Goat, then in 2019 at Matthiasson. I could sense that there was something special about this fruit, so when I set off on my own I knew I had to have some.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grapes were gently pressed. The juice was left to settle in tank overnight and then spontaneously fermented in neutral French oak barrels. After finishing fermenting, two barrels were left on their lees until bottling to build texture and complexity, while the third was racked to stainless steel for brightness. 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