DuoMa Pet-Nat Bianco
An ultimate late summer crush. When you’re trying to hold onto that joyful sunshine feeling that comes with the lazy last days of summer - this is the bottle to break out. It’s soo full of life. Bright and flavorful, this Mexican Pet-Nat will have you wishing for another heatwave (like me!!)
This grapes are grown at a higher elevation (2200ft) vineyard in the Valle de Ojos Negros (a bit SE of the Valle de Guadalupe). Just over 12 years ago, the vineyard soils are clay & sand bringing some minerality and structure to these grapes! The grapes are harvested early September and naturally fermented in stainless steel tanks for about two weeks. At this point it’s bottled, while the fermentation is only about three quarters of the way done. This traps the remaining CO2 that occurs during fermentation and creates that oh-so lovely bubble in petillant-natural better known as Pet-Nat. Lovingly disgorged by hand for some amazing freshness. Refreshing and so full of flavor. Tropical notes of mango and pineapple acidity do the tango with ripe apricots & hints of brioche which makes this way too easy to drink and is everything I’m wanting as I soak up these glorious days of summer and enjoy the cooler nights of September.
And please meet the amazing couple behind DuoMa - Carla and Eliecer. Some of the kindest and most welcoming people you’ll ever have the pleasure to hang with. Both went to school for hospitality, but decided together to ditch that path and take on this project. DuoMa is a little nod to dos manos, or the two hands that go into this project. Fully a collaboration between these two who are choosing manual procedures and minimal intervention winemaking. The focus being on the highest quality wines possible that they’re really putting themselves into. Perched atop a little hill in the middle of the Valle de Guadalupe is their production and tasting room. It’s a gorgeous metal dome that pops out like a beacon as you’re driving on the backroads heading through the valley. A few zig zags on dirt roads (and in our case a massive rain-filled pothole) brings you to this bubble of joy and thoughtful wine making. You sit and hear Eliser talk about their wines and lives and this part of the world while staring out at the colorful rolling hills of the Valle. *Perfection* And like all the winemakers we love, of course they’ve taken in way too many strays (is there such a thing as too many??). Point is we love them and their wines & hope you will too!
