Skull Wine Company is a collaboration between longtime friends Patrick Cappiello and Pax Mahle. The philosophy at Skull Wines is to make hand-crafted wines in the spirit of old California - working with family owned, organically farmed vineyards and simple winemaking. Spontaneous fermentations take place with whole cluster grapes in stainless steel and concrete, and aging takes place in neutral oak barrels. The goal is to make moderate alcohol, higher acid, fresh wines, naturally. All of the wines are blends produced from fruit that comes from the sames locations as the fruit for his Monte Rio Cellars project. The primary difference between the two is that the Skull Wines are blends from several different sites, where as the Monte Rio wines are single vineyard expressions of a single Very low amounts of sulfur are added, typically at bottling.
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