Style of wine: Rosé

Producer: Inconnu

Grapes: 100% Merlot

Where: Sierra Foothills, California

Country: USA

Wine Maker: Laura Brennan Bissell

Taste: With savory balsamic strawberry notes and muscular fruit in the style of Tavel or Bandol, this is a rich and voluptuous rosé. Notes of strawberry, orange peel, floral and spicy notes, acknowledge the tannins that are just right, and the perfect mineral finish

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Laura elected to harvest the grapes early to avoid the devastating smoke that would envelope the area just days later. The resulting wine turned out to be anything but a “turn and burn'' rosé destined to be drunk soon after bottling. She devoted 12 months of barrel aging to this wine which deserved so much more attention than your typical early drinking rosé.

With  organic farming, clay loam soil, fermented and aged for one year in neutral barrels, partially under flor, and bottled unfiltered, with only a touch of SO2 at bottling.