In this age of the digital race for attention, Midland is a quiet exercise of focus and quality of technique. Our hope is that in the pursuit of good work, there’s an audience to sustain a venture such as ours. This is not a five year plan. These are the first years of a family business designed to follow generations into the future.
Therefore, our approach to winegrowing is progressive yet precise, and we hope to walk the line between skillful and unexpected. Our wines will evolve over time as we learn more, as the world changes, and as we change.
These offerings represent the work of our hands, and of past hands, building for longevity, so that future hands may continue and improve upon this work.
Savory, umami, wild flavored wine full of life
Aged longer in barrel (18 months) and in bottle (36 months)
Long lees aging. Mineral character shapes the flesh of the wine, making for a play of texture and acidity
20% whole clusters, with ambient yeasts. Herbs and smoked tea accentuate the dark fruit and tactile structure
52% Blaufrankisch, 31% Cabernet Franc, and 17% Noiret (aka the “ish”)
Grapes co-fermented with seedling crab apples
Orchard fruit, beeswax, and fresh baking bread
Smoked tea accentuates the dark fruit and tactile structure
100% Chardonnay
18 months on lees, 36 months in bottle
Zero dosage
50% crabapple, 25% Chambourcin, 25% Traminette
Domestique X Midland Wine collab
Label by dye and textile artist, An-Phuong Ly.
Incorporated 50% whole cluster to compliment the inherent black and white pepper character of the grape. Aged in used 500L French oak puncheon until unfiltered bottling. The result is dark fruited, dense, layered, and distinctively aromatic.
Savory orchard fruit punctuated with beeswax and fresh baking bread
Fermented 25% whole cluster, with ambient yeasts and bottled without filtration
Zero sulfur added, 31 months lees contact
Coferment 74% Cabernet Franc and 24% Blaufränkisch. 18 months in barrel, 24 months in bottle. Mineral and precision, zero dosage
Bittersweet, aromatized, fortified digestif wine that is labeled as aperitif to appease the federal government.
Born of a mother that reaches back to 2007. Meaning this has every vintage from 2007 to 2017.
What are the grapes? All of the grapes. Over 20 different herbs, botanicals and bittering plants provide the aromas and flavors.
(500 ml)