Early Mountain Petit Manseng, Virginia 2022

More than any other wine, our dry Petit Manseng represents our winegrowing philosophy at Early Mountain - constantly learning and adapting our techniques to meet our sites. Sometimes Petit Manseng’s acidity seems exceptionally high, but we have begun to utilize techniques, such as long lees contact, malolactic fermentation, etc., to mitigate and balance the acid, while making a dry wine. Fermented in primarily large format barrels (500L to 1000L) the long, very slow, ambient fermentation gives ample contact with the lees, and the addition of our “perpetual lees” barrel (still going since 2017) adds richness and a brioche undertone.