Mike Sangiacomo
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Farm4Profit Podcast · F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine! · 22 Aug 2024
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So when you taste it, you're getting fruit and acidity, which is great with food. And then it allows the palate to linger. Do you get some acid in the wine? Do you get some acidity?
Mike, I think if you like fish, obviously, but any of the lighter meats like chicken and pork and then any type of vegetarian goes real well. Any type of sauce is usually lighter sauce, but even though I'll go with a little red sauce as long as it's not too dominant. So it's pretty flexible.
Yeah, that acidity allows for the flavors of the food to be exemplified. And there's a touch of oak on it. So we, you know, new oak is, you know, winemaking in general is like, you know, you want a kiss of oak, right? You don't want, sometimes there's some Chardonnays, you know, Chardonnays got a kind of a bad rap in the last,
decades where just you taste it and there's this all oak and a lot of just, you know, you really aren't even tasting the vineyard, the terroir. And there's a big renaissance of Chardonnay where winemakers and just wineries are really cutting back on the oak. And so this has about 22% new oak, which means new French barrels. So you get that really kind of that oak expression.
And then all the rest of it goes to neutral barrels, which allow for all of our vineyard and all the hard work we do all you know, all year to come through in, in, in the, uh, in the final product.
Yes. Yeah.
Chardonnays are a dominant variety, but we also grow Pinot Noir, uh, a little bit of Merlot and a couple other small varieties, a little tiny bit of Sauvignon Blanc, um, and a couple other one and a half, two acre varieties and stuff that we're playing around with. But, uh, Pinot and Chardonnay are our two main varieties.
So we're Burgundian varieties. So it's in Burgundy of France where it all started, right? And so the Burgundy part of France is a very similar climate to some parts of Sonoma County, not all. Sonoma County has different weather microclimates. And so where our vineyards are, We grow the Burgundian variety, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, just because they're really cool.
They accelerate and do very well in these types of climates. So Pinot Chard is the majority of what we grow. In Sonoma County, there's Pinot Noir, Chardonnay. We grow a lot in Cabernet. Those are the three main varieties. Having said that, Sonoma County has microclimates where it grows everywhere. I think over every 20 plus varieties, maybe even more than that.
The majority is Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet.
Yeah.
just a little google search on the right so on the label this beautiful label you have san jacomo it says it says san jacomo which is obviously the winery's name and then below it's sonoma coast and that's actually the region of sonoma where the aba which we talked about uh earlier and then it says a chardonnay variety as you just alluded and then the vintage on there it'll even go as specific as sometimes they'll they'll put um
Vineyard-specific wines. So for us, we'll put, you know, some of our – one of our 14 different vineyards. So it'll be San Giacomo. It'll say Green Acres, Sonoma Coast, Chardonnay. So that's some of the, you know, the writings that goes on labels and some of the educational components.
Can we get – So we don't – for us, we're about 4,000 cases, so super small states. brand. We sell 97% of the fruit we grow. We only use about 3% of our favorite blocks and vineyards. So, for us, we have a wine club at our website, sanjargonwines.com, and you can buy online. We direct shift. We're not in Iowa yet. We don't have distribution in Iowa.
You're in Ohio. We're not in any of the... We're just in a couple small states. Yeah.
Well, it should have come in ice. If it didn't, then I'm going to call our ship. It is very difficult to ship wine this time of year because of the heat, and they should come with ice. Did it come with ice?
It survived, right?
Well, you guys got to come on. So you were out visiting, you said?
Correct. Yep.
Well, you got to come out to Sonoma and visit us.
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