St Amant Winery
Lodi (California)
The Estate
St.Amant
Winery is a small family owned winery located in Lodi,
California that prides itself in producing handcrafted
wines of superb quality. Focusing on Mediterranean
grapes, St.Amant crafts distinctive wines from
Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian varietals in addition
to California’s own Zinfandel.
Tim
& Barbara St.Amant Spencer founded St.Amant Winery
in 1981 foucusing on alternative varieties. With
a diversified background in agriculture, medicine, and
the retail wine business, Tim strives to create
fruit-forward food-friendly delicious wines. He
firmly believes that wine, first and foremost, is a
beverage of pleasure, best enjoyed with family and
friends.
The vineyard
The
grapes for all St.Amant wines, whether from Lodi or
their own vineyard in the Sierra Foothills of Amador
County, are carefully grown and selected for producing
fruit of top quality. St.Amant strongly believes
that all great wines are made in the vineyard, and
meticulously focuses on low yields with concentrated
intense fruit flavors.
Vinification follows simple techniques designed for
maximum expression of the terroir of each of the
vineyard sites: harvest of fully mature and ripe
fruit; careful sorting of the grapes at the
crusher/destemmer removing leaves and imperfect
clusters; fermentation in open-top vessels with a high
juice to skin ratio; careful macerattion of the must
with gentle pumpovers, delestage, and hand punchdowns;
pressing and racking to small oak barrels for a
natural malolactic fermentation. They use only
high quality coopers and variety of French and
American oaks for added complexity. They bottle
with minimal rackings, fining, and filtration.
The Wine
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