The Innocent Bystander philosophy is that great wine at its best is like a fingerprint – inextricably linking the personality, mood, and growing season of the land from which it has sprung. This wine is comprised of 100% hand-picked fruit, wild ferments, and gravity-flow winemaking techniques. 20% of the grapes were kept as whole bunches and juice was added to partially submerge those bunches. The fermenters were then covered, immersed with carbon dioxide, and left to cold macerate until fermentation by indigenous yeasts began. After fermentation the wine spent 11 months in 100% French oak barriques (10% new) for natural settling and was bottled without filtration or fining. A vibrant bouquet laded with red and blue fruits, savory spices, and dried flowers. The wine has a lovely weight and texture with polished, structured tannin and vibrant acidity.