2018 Dark Days

100% Blaufränkisch Rosé. Warm weather was made for escaping to the water and rosé was always made light pink, but the unexpected is always lurking just under the surface. There’s never much you can do when it rears it’s head, pops out and grabs you except drink up. When things don’t seem normal, that’s where the real adventure lives.

True to name, it’s as dark as these days. Don’t let the deep dark color fool you, it’s a live wire. Ripe red fruit bouncing all over and the palate is a ride you wont forget. Are you drinking red wine? Nah man, it’s fresh, bright, it’s dancing. Easy drinking here kids – get after it. 114 cases produced.

FRUIT SOURCES
Ox-Eye Blaufränkisch from the Shenandoah Valley.

WINEMAKING
Our approach was somewhere between rose’ and light red. 100% whole cluster, no SO2 on the fruit, on the skins for five days, semi carbonic and then pressed. Primary and malo in neutral 228L french barrels and aged on lees without SO2 until bottling. Bottled unfiltered 2/15/19 with a single 25ppm addition of SO2 at bottling.

CHEMISTRY
pH: 3.55
TA: 5.2 g/L
Free SO2 at bottling: 8 ppm
Alcohol: 11.5% abv
RS: 1.2 g/L (0.1%)
Malic Acid: <0.05 g/L