Martha Stoumen Post Flirtation Rosé No. 5

Grapes: Nero d’Avola, Vermentino

Region: Healdsburg, CA

Farming: Organic

Martha Stoumen Wines was founded upon the desire to recapture a farming and winemaking culture that has all but faded away: a winemaking culture of patience. After 8 years apprenticing around the world, Martha set out as a self-funded, first generation winemaker to answer the question, “What does California taste like?” In their hot little corner of Northern California, Mediterranean grapes thrive and healthy vineyards allow them to create joyful balanced wines. Her wines are made from unexpected varietals and offer new takes on California classics. They do things the right way even if it's not the easy or cool way. Of the nearly two dozen wines they make every year, blends and flavors change but the desire to share the simple pleasures of natural wine remains the same. When Martha founded the company in 2014, she started by exploring warm and breezy regions that allow for natural farming. She was thrilled to find a handful of dedicated farmers, primarily growing Mediterranean grapes in the Ukiah area of Mendocino County, Contra Costa County and Suisun Valley. She has been making wine from their fruit and laughing with them ever since. Martha also found two traditionally planted, head trained, dry farmed vineyards that she now leases.