56% Vidal Blanc, 20% Chambourcin, 11% Petit Manseng, 9% Chardonel, and 4% Traminette. Textural and Elegant with delicate floral elements. Soft and subtle, hard do discern in a lacy, refreshing fruit manner. The palate comes off slightly savory backed by fresh white cherry and wild strawberry highlights. This is a more complex drink than a simple rose, but still totally crushable. Drink away the day. 143 cases produced.
FRUIT SOURCES
Rainbow Hill Vidal Blanc and Chardonel, Middlebrook Chambourcin and Traminette, Sherman Ridge Petit Manseng
WINEMAKING
This is a wine that changes from year to year. We change the name, the label design, and the approach to the wine is always evolving. For the past few years, we have been using both white and red grapes to make something that is usually rosé oriented, skin contact adjacent, or vice versa. This year we lean a little harder towards rosé, but stay away from the pale and crisp, simply fruited, provençal style that has come to define industrial versions of this category. There are wonderful, hand crafted bottlings of that approach, but we love a rosé with layered flavors and a deeper texture, so we work with a variety of grapes to build nuance and density, and we allow the wine to go through malo, so we don’t have to filter. With a small addition of SO2, we find a wine that is charming, with creamy fruit at bottling and that develops over time, daring us to take it more seriously. You don’t have to do that, but you can!
CHEMISTRY
pH: 3.37
TA: 6.1 g/L
Free SO2 at bottling: Probably ~ 9 ppm 14 ppm total addition
Alcohol: 11.6% abv
RS: 0.5 g/L
Malic Acid: 0.1 g/L
Acetic acid at bottling: 0.4 g/L
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