Bokisch Terra Alta Vineyard Graciano

Markus and Liz Bokisch have been producing award-winning Spanish varietals since the early 2000s. With hearts and heritage of Spain, their inspiration to produce Spanish varietal wines in California began by directly importing budwood from select vineyards in Spain, thus creating Bokisch Vineyards, nestled in the Clements Hills of the Lodi AVA. They began making wine from their estate grown and organically farmed fruit in 2000.

Vineyards

The Terra Alta Vineyard is the beautiful home of Bokisch’s winery facility and is nestled in the toe of the Sierra Foothills. Featuring 80 acres of redding gravelly clay loam, this is the organically certified home of the wineries plantings of Albarino, Garnacha, and Graciano. Markus planted this parcel in 1996 because its climate and soil were almost identical to the vineyards he farmed in the Vaca Mountains of Napa Valley. Those vineyards, like Terra Alta, are perfect for Mediterranean varieties. This cutting of Graciano was taken specifically from the Las Cerezas Vineyard, where Markus Bokisch was the first to plant Graciano in the United States.

Vinification

95% Graciano, 5% Tempranillo.

Graciano has taught our winemaking team extreme patience. It is incredibly vigorous in the vineyard and has it challenges in the cellar as it ages. Fermented for 16 days in stainless steel tank and then moved into new French and American oak – 18 months total aging in a combination of 15% New French, 5% New American, 80% Neutral Oak.

Tasting Notes

This Graciano’s colour is dark, inky, and serious. It has savory and meaty aromas of baking spices, toasted cedar, blueberry jam, and lavender. It has textured flavours of dark berries, blueberry syrup, crushed violet and lavender. It has a hint of smoke in the finish, and goes down long and lingering.

Pair this with Prime Rib.