2016 · Mendocino Field Blend

Vinca Minor is a privately owned California producer founded in 2013 by winemaker Jason Edward Charles and co-owned with Emily O'Hara Charles, who oversees business and design. The winery focuses on small-batch, low-intervention wines from historic Mendocino vineyards, including dry-farmed old vines grown without irrigation on thin soils, with some Chardonnay from the cooled Mendocino Coast. Working in partnership with multi-generational farming families, Vinca Minor emphasizes sustainable vineyard practices despite holding no formal organic or biodynamic certification. In the cellar, the approach is natural and restrained: spontaneous fermentation, no commercial yeasts, minimal sulfur, and no fining or filtration.