Annia

Flagship wine, sourced from small vineyards around Napa Valley and named for Dan’s mother. The blend is typically around 60% Tocai Friulano, 30% Ribolla and 10% Chardonnay depending on the vintage.

The varieties are rare! In fact, 30% of all the Tocai and Ribolla grown in California are in a bottle of Annia. Dan works with Tocai Fruilano planted in 1946. They are some of the oldest white wine grapes left in CA. And only 3 acres of Ribolla Gialla are planted outside of Friuli and Slovenia.

Annia is a nostalgic wine for Dan, he made it to transport him to another time and place. Living in Napa’s Mediterranean climate, he realized that there weren’t many refreshing white wines that occupied their rightful place on the table along with food, family and friends. His year living in Italy inspired him to bring that style of wine to life in Napa Valley. His access to old vines and rare Italian varieties planted in California is truly a blessing.

Gemina

Gemina is a unique white blend combining grapes one does not typically see presented together. Greco - the descendant of the ancient Roman grape Aminea Gemina is traditionally grown in southern Italy, while Pinot Bianco is traditionally found in the north. Here grapes from the “old country” come together in a uniquely California blend, where the Greco is grown in the Russian River Valley (Sonoma Country) and the Pinot Bianco in Napa Valley. The first vintage was 2009 and was blended with Chardonnay but staring in 2014 only the two Italian varieties made up the blend.

Greco has a lot of tannin. 10-15x more tannin than most white grapes. The clusters are small so the seed/skin ratio to juice is much greater. You can get a lot of phenolic extract.

• Blend: 74% Pinot Bianco and 26% Greco
• Sulfur: 20 parts per million cells (i.e. less than 0.002%)
• Alcohol: 13%
• 100% neutral French oak for six months

Hyde Chardonnay

Dan is greatly honored to be working with one of the famous vineyards in all of California. Founded by Larry Hyde in Carneros thirty five years ago; the vineyard is currently farmed by his sons Christopher and Peter. Planted predominantly to chardonnay, the estate has a list of wineries famous for capturing the essence of this iconic site.

Viticulture:
The vineyard stretches along the rolling hills of Carneros straddling the southernmost tip of Napa and Sonoma County. with south east exposure. Carneros is a wet, cooler site. Farming in Hyde has been moving towards organic certification. 2010/2011 were very wet years so they had to move away from it and as a result had to restart the process. It takes 3 years to get certification.

This bottling is made from a parcel of long rows of Musqué and Clone 4 of Chardonnay planted in 1992. Those are both clones that tend to be more acid driven and has a lot to do with how much freshness the wine has.

Winemaking:
Most chards from Hyde are big despite the cooler site. Fog doesn’t blow off till after lunch. Expressions from Paul Hobbs, Kistler, Dumol are examples of what happens when you let the fruit hang. Dan is picking at 22/23 brix. Wine was fermented and aged in new and used french oak. 300L barrels, light toast. Naturally no malo, some batonnage and no sulfur to push the fermentation. 66% new oak to soften the wine. Wines are made at Larkmead.

Sauvignon Blanc

The Sauvignon Blanc pays homage to the adopted native grape of Friuli in northeast Italy. The grapes come from the Juliana Vineyard in Pope Valley, one of Napa’s warmest regions with intense temperature swings, where it can be 100 degrees during the day and 45 at night.

Fermented in a mix of steel and french oak. 66% stainless steel barrels so Dan can play with lees.

“I pick on PH, not sugar.” - Dan Petroski

Gaspare

Gaspare is a wine all about friends and family for Dan. Without Massimo Califiori there would have been no trip to Sicily. Without George Vare there would be no Ribolla Gialla in the United States and without Christian Patat and Serena Palazzolo of Ronco del Gnemiz there would be no inspiration for this wine. Dan considers all of his friends his heroes and his motivation.

Annia is named after Dan's mother and his first Italian wine vintage is named after Massimo’s father Gaspare. Without Massimo in Dan's life there would be no Massican.

Made from grapes in Friuli Colli Orentali at Ronco del Gnemiz. Grapes: tocai friulano – 43%, ribolla gialla – 29%, chardonnay – 28%

4,500 bottles produced.
The vineyards are in the DOC Collio Orientali. What makes this region great is its hillside vineyards from Buttrio to Rosazzo.

The Massican vineyard sources are Badie (Tocai), Croatto (Tocai and Ribolla) and Fantin (Chardonnay and Ribolla). Most of these from the North of the appellation between Buttrio and Graves, just south of Udine..The Croatto vineyards are young, recently planted and under 10 years. The Badie are 40 year old vines and the Fantin Chardonnay are old, 45 years, and the Ribolla are young in comparison, just teenagers.

Vermouth

If you know Dan, you know he love a good Gin martini. It was only natural he would like to experiement with vermouth. Aromatize wines that never made the final cut around ~275 cases

2016:

2016 is only the second vintage of annia that ribolla gialla takes the lead in the blend, 2012 being the other. there is a story that george vare liked to tell us about ribolla, according to the late, great stanko radikon, ribolla is the consummate supporting actor when blended into a wine under the 50% threshold. at that minority level, the grape will truly morph into the background, providing the floors, the walls and the ceiling for the other grapes to adorn. in our 2016 annia, the 60% of ribolla in the wine is flattering; stone fruit and baked apple with green almond on the palate that plays off the tocai’s citrus blossom and pear skin. the 9% of hyde chardonnay in the blend tightens the wine a bit, but in reality it just steps aside and gives the two friulian varieties a stage to play on; however, expect the chardonnay to get involved as the wine ages.

2017:

The 2017 vintage in Napa will always be remembered because of the wildfires that began on the evening of Sunday, October 8. Massican was very fortunate that not only were all of their grapes harvested before the fires broke out but also that their vineyards were spared from harm; however, they cannot say that for all our neighbors who have been impacted by this tragedy. The blend in 2017 was 55% Ribolla Gialla, 39% Tocai Friulano, and 9% Chardonnay.

2018:

Tocai Friulano 48%, Ribolla Gialla 41%, Chardonnay 11%. Annia is a white wine blend made from grapes sourced in vineyards throughout the Napa Valley. The wines are fermented independently in French oak barrels and stainless steel tanks, where they rest until winter. The two Italian varieties in the wine build the aroma and flavor profile while the Chardonnay adds to the wine’s structure.