Tinto Amorio
Tinto Amorio produces wines that blur conventional boundaries. The winery works with California fruit to craft skin-contact and natural-leaning expressions, drawing on varieties like Zinfandel, Albariño, Gewürztraminer, and Colombard. The Monje Skin Contact Orange and Jajaja Glou Glou Red both earned 92-point ratings from Wine Enthusiast, demonstrating the winery's ability to extract depth and complexity from unconventional techniques. The Bheeyo Skin-Contact, a blend of Colombard, Zinfandel, Gewürztraminer, and Albariño, rounds out a portfolio oriented toward texture, color, and fermentation-driven character. These wines signal a winery engaged with modern California winemaking—one that prioritizes process and varietal exploration over tradition.
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Wine Enthusiast