Martha Stoumen 'Patatino' MV (2025) Red California

750ml bottle
11% abv

Gently turbid, raspberry eye. Hibiscus, fir, and wild licorice on the nose. Blood orange, red berry fruit, and raspberry leaf tea on the palate. Fresh and fruit-forward with low tannin and saline minerality.

Approximately one-third Valdiguié, one-quarter Colombard, one-quarter Carignan. All from Ricetti Vineyard, Redwood Valley, Mendocino County. Head-trained vines planted 1948. Dry-farmed, certified organic. Gravelly loam soils. A portion of 2024 aged Carignan blended in for structure. 

A portion of the Valdiguié co-fermented with Carignan and white Colombard from Ricetti's mixed block using carbonic maceration. Touch of 2024 aged Carignan added to ground the blend.

Free SO2 9 mg/L, Total SO2 24 mg/L. Bottled January 2026.

The Patatino is a non-vintage co-fermentation produced four times since 2020. The name is Italian for "little potato," a term of endearment Martha Stoumen uses for her son August, whose birth the first Patatino celebrated. The wine is designed as an early-release, immediately drinkable expression outside the estate's regular single-vineyard range. The label artwork was drawn by her husband Jon.

Martha Stoumen founded her project in 2014 after a background in traditional agricultural systems, apprenticeships with Didier Barral at Léon Barral in Faugères, Reinhard Löwenstein at Heymann-Löwenstein in the Mosel, and Chris Brockway at Broc Cellars, and a master's degree at UC Davis. She is based in Healdsburg. The project sources exclusively from organically farmed, dry-farmed vineyards across Northern California, with a focus on Mediterranean varieties suited to California's warm-climate growing conditions. All winemaking is minimal intervention throughout.