{"product_id":"above-and-below-red-blend-wonderwerk-california-natural-wine","title":"Above \u0026 Below 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbove \u0026amp; Below is a co-fermented field blend of equal parts Carignan, Mataro, and Zinfandel sourced from two sustainably farmed vineyards in Oakley and Antioch, Contra Costa County. The vines are 120 to 140 years old, own-rooted and head-trained in up to 40 feet of deep Delhi sandy loam — a soil type that prevented phylloxera from ever taking hold here, leaving some of the oldest surviving vines in California intact on their original rootstock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll three varieties were hand-harvested on September 9, 2019. Zinfandel was de-stemmed and co-fermented alongside whole-cluster Carignan and Mataro in a 2-ton open-top fermenter. The fruit was foot-trodden to liberate juice, then macerated at cellar temperature with native yeast fermentation kicking off within three days. Fermentation was managed with an initial pump-over followed by one to two daily punchdowns. After an 11-day maceration, the wine was pressed into neutral French oak barrique and aged for 13 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with 30ppm of sulfur at bottling. Only 98 cases were produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name references the Hermetic principle of correspondence — as above, so below — and the winemakers frame the wine as a direct continuation of a tradition stretching back to Portuguese and Italian immigrants who settled the Sacramento Delta in the late 1800s, planting these same varieties in field blends and harvesting them together into a single cuvee. The farming is sustainable; no organic certification is confirmed for this specific vineyard source.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wonderwerk Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31705572999261,"sku":"WONDABOV19C","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/above-and-below-red-blend-wonderwerk-california-natural-wine.jpg?v=1780694536","url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/products\/above-and-below-red-blend-wonderwerk-california-natural-wine","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}