2018 Two Wolves Syrah

Two Wolves

USA / Santa Ynez Valley / Two Wolves

95% Syrah, 5% Malvasia Bianca. The fruit is from Right Left Vineyard's Block 4 (0.94 acres). These are north-south planted rows. Planted in 2015, own-rooted Estrella/Alban clone on Positas fine sandy loam with gravel. 60% whole cluster; native yeast; 25% new oak. Planted in 2014 this block is really coming into its own.
2018 was our second vintage of this beautiful block of Syrah. With the vines in full production, we experimented with whole-cluster fermentation in three distinct lots. After one month on the skins, we pressed into 500L puncheons and 228L barriques. The resulting wine lots were uniquely delicious, and ultimately they complemented each other to create a complex and harmonious final blend. Our 2018 Syrah/Malvasia field-blend gives plum, cherries, fresh pine, freshly grated nutmeg, caramel, and peppercorn in the nose. There’s a dusty, chalky loveliness to this wine and a lift of orange peel that complements the ample structure provided by the 60% whole cluster fermentation. Mouthcoating, with an elegant earthiness that transforms while in the glass. – Alecia Moore

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About Two Wolves

Two Wolves is the wine project of Alecia Moore, grown on her organic-certified vineyard in Santa Barbara County in California's central coast. Alecia - better known by her stage name, Pink - bought the vineyard in 2013 and added new plantings to the Two Wolves site (planted in 2005 and 2010) in 2015. That same year, she planted another site on the property - Right Left vineyard - and recruited California-born winemaker Alison Thomson to make the wines alongside her. This was always conceived as an immersive, hands-on project from the curious, committed and intrepid Alecia – and she was only ever going to have another superwoman at her side, which she found in Alison. Australia, the country where Alicia first fell in love with wine, became the first export market for Two Wolves when CellarHand brought in a suite of wines from the 2018 vintage in mid-2022.

About

Alecia Moore's interest in wine began when touring Australia as on-stage alter ego Pink in the early 2000s. In the latter half of the decade she undertook studies through WSET and UCLA to take her knowledge up a level, and in 2013 she took the step of buying a vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley. The other half of this dynamic duo is Alison Thomson, who grew up in the Bay Area and studied viticulture at UC Davis after undergraduate studies in biology and restorative ecology. She has run numerous projects in the Santa Ynez Valley and has her own label, L.A. Lepiane, focusing on Italian varieties. She joined the garagiste operation that is Two Wolves in 2015, and in lockstep with Alecia crafts ripe, fresh, expressive wines from the certified-organic estate vineyards.