Kleinlerer Wines 'Skin Contact' Chenin Blanc, Clarksburg, California (2023 or 2024)Sagie Kleinlerer founded Kleinlerer Wines as a side project while serving as Managing Director at Covenant Winery in Berkeley one of America's most celebrated kosher wineries. Though he cut his teeth in wine law, sommelier studies, and winery management, it was earning his WSET Level 4 Diploma that sent him to the cellar. He purchased a barrel of Chenin Blanc during the pandemic, fermented it on skins, and released 19 cases to friends in early 2020.

Alaska (caught)

Bottled April 2023

8 g/LpH: 3

accessible expression of the region's white grapes

concentrating flavor and developing the piercing mineral salinity and floral aromatic lift that characterize the climat

SERVING SUGGESTIONS: Over grains or rice with greens

mild sea breeze

and took full control in 2003

highly specialized seven-person vineyard crew

when the region was still considered too cold and its clay soils too shallow for viticulture

After pasteurization

a VDP Große Lage site with Devonian slate and volcanic diabase soils