What is unique about their biodynamic winery is, despite being located in some of the most fertile ground on the planet for Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay, their bread-and-butter grape is Grenache.
Winemaking requires a variety of skills, demands hard work, and pulls out every ounce of patience in those working the grapes. Michael Oravecz and Loretta DiChiro have that patience and passion.
One overarching inspiration is DiChiro’s Italian family heritage, which included many farmers who tended their land in traditional methods, without chemicals.
A bottle of L’Ermita grenache from Spain’s Priorat region was their inspiration for planting four acres of grenache.
My favorite rosé of the 2019 season has been Mila Family Vineyards’ estate-grown Rosé of Grenache… I have been sampling the wine with some of DiChiro’s appetizer creations… The pairings are heavenly.
If I returned to Grand Cru tomorrow, here are the wines I would hand-select: … The whole-cluster-pressed Mila Family Vineyards Prima Grenache, an alternative red from their 54-acre wine farm in northeast Sonoma County.
