Yetti & The Kokonut "Hipster Juice"

The name of the wine, coupled with the color, pretty much tells you everything you need to know. This is for the cool-kids and not meant to be a wine of too much thought but rather too many friends with whom this should be shared. Dave & Koen had the vision of a blank white canvas and having a lot of fun with heaps of colors. Some were painted with a brush, others by hand and a smattering of finger paints and even spray paint: Zinfandel, Doradillo, Cabernet Franc and Sémillon (of the red mutation) are the colors. Three red grapes and one weird white were handpicked across a three-week period with “high flavor x bright acid” as the common equation. The Doradillo (weird white) was picked first and fermented 1/3 whole-bunch and 1/3 whole-berry tipped atop 1/3 pressed juice. The Zinfandel came in next and fermented 100% whole-bunch in a 25hL open top fermenter for three weeks and pumped over frequently for maximum structure, then pressed to old puncheons. The Red Sémillon was fermented