2022 Hollow Wines 'Zuma Orange'

100% organic and dry farmed Riesling from the Zabala Vineyard in Arroyo Seco. Fourteen days of skin contact, native yeast fermentation, bottled unfined and unfiltered with extremely minimal sulphur.  12.69% alcohol.

Delicious, light and very easy drinking, this isn’t a crazy funky orange wine. It has a wonderul nose of clean, ripe citrus and tropical fruit with pretty floral overtones. Clean and fresh on the palate, with just a hint of tannic grip to its orange and tropical fruit flavors. Buoyant, lively acidity keeps everything fresh. This is a great “chill it and kill it” summer wine.

Hollow Wines is a newish natty California project from Woodson “Quinn” Hobbs, who grew up in Portola Valley, with his Aussie wife Alison and their daughter Mina. They currently live in LA but make the wine in Gilroy, sourcing fruit from organic vineyards up and down the state. Quinn not only has the Midas touch with wine, he’s also getting his PhD in global leadership and change so that he can help other wineries produce low-carbon wine that’s better for the planet and the people. To that end, Hobbs requires fruit sources to be organic. If you use Roundup anywhere on the property, it’s a firm no-go. “Roundup is a disaster for this planet,” he says. He considers himself a practitioner of No B.S. winemaking, which he equates to minimal intervention and using wild yeast with no adds other than some sulfur. Some might call it natural winemaking, but he prefers to say “simply good wine making.”