Subject to Change Wild Child Carignane 2018
Product details
| Management number | 253563637 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$12.40 | Model Number | 253563637 | ||
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Wild Child Carignane comes entirely from Poor Ranch Vineyard, located in the eastern hills above Hopland in Mendocino County. The Poor family homesteaded this land in 1888, and their Carignane block — planted in the early 1940s on St. George rootstock — is among the oldest on the ranch. The vines are dry-farmed, head-trained without trellises, and certified organic. The ranch spans over 1,000 acres, with roughly 90 acres planted to wine grapes, including Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Grenache, and Carignane.
Subject to Change founder Alex Pomerantz sources exclusively from organic and biodynamic vineyards and makes the wines with no additions or subtractions in the cellar — no fining, no filtration, no added sulfur. Fermentation is with native yeasts. The Carignane is a single-vineyard, single-variety bottling at 12.8% ABV.
Carignane at elevation in the Hopland hills produces wines with firm natural acidity and structured tannin, balanced by red and dark fruit from the warm inland climate. The volcanic soils at Poor Ranch contribute a mineral thread that runs through the wine. This is a wine built for the table — food-friendly, higher-acid, and distinctly site-driven.
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