100% Sauvignon Blanc
Rancho Llano Colorado, Valle de San Vicente (Baja, Mexico)
Red clay, sand, and sandy loam
Sustainable
Fermented at low temperatures and aged for 6 months in stainless steel tanks.
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Bright and expressive nose, with aromas of passion fruit, fresh cut grass, cat pee on a gooseberry bush (Pyrazines), green guava, citrus. On the palate, it offers a crisp freshness with lingering grapefruit and litchi aromas and a beautiful bone-dry finish.
Ceviche, cucumber dill salad, fried zucchini, asparagus risotto, and Greek pasta salad, chicken, turkey, pork, halibut, crab, lobster, haddock, bass, cod, salmon, oysters w/ mignonette, calamari, or smoked salmon, goat cheese, or créme fraiche.
Casa Jipi (pronounced Hippie) started as a clear example of “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!” – or wine, in our particular case.
Times of crisis brought together two families, two wineries, two valleys and gave birth to this incredible project. It binds together Rancho Llano Colorado, one of the region’s most important and sought after grape producers, Vinicola Bruma, the up-and-coming winery pushing Mexican boundaries in winemaking, and Lulu Martinez Ojeda, one of the leading winemakers in Mexico, changing the wine scene as one of its prominent ambassadors internationally.
Lourdes Martinez Ojeda worked for almost 10 years at Château Brane-Cantenac. She returned to her hometown of Ensenada to bridge the divide between France and Mexico and worked for Bodegas Lurton. She is also the winemaker for Bruma.
Baja, Mexico, as a wine region, features a climate similar to the Mediterranean climate (dry summers and mild, wet winters), allowing different non-indigenous grapes to thrive. There is maritime influence by the Pacific that contributes salinity in the grapes to compliment the intrinsic fruit and stony minerality from the earth. There is a long growing season, allowing more sugars and ripeness to occur in the grapes.
Sauvignon Blanc is a high-acid grape that expresses green-grass herbaceous qualities, and it can grow in a plethora of regions. It expresses different fruit notes from different regions. In Sancerre, it has more lemon-lime notes, whereas a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc tends to express passionfruit or guava.
