Vineyard: Ricetti

AVA: Redwood Valley, Mendocino, CA

Farming: Organic, Dry Farmed

Harvest Date: 12 September 2024

Bottling Date: 20 March 2023

Alc: 11.5%

Cases: 100

While the Carignan for rosé in 2022 and 2023 was picked at the same time as the Carignan for the red, in 2024 we did a separate rosé pick 2 weeks before the main red Carignan pick.  We picked earlier because we were aiming for a little less color and a little more zip than in 2023.  In addition, while the 2022 and 2023 Carignan rosé was foot crushed and left on skins for several hours, the 2024 Carignan rosé was foot crushed only minimally and then pressed directly – again, with the goal of extracting less color into the final wine.  The result is a paler rosé with more minerality, and strawberry and cream aromas.

Once pressed, the juice settled overnight, then was racked off gross less to stainless steel and fermented in tank. After primary fermentation finished, the wine was racked to a combination of neutral oak and stainless steel barrels.  Both aged for 6 months, then were racked together to tank in late March for bottling.

Indigenous yeast fermentation.  SO2: 20 ppm total.  No other additions, unfined and unfiltered.

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