Variety: Grenache
Location: Calaveras County, CA
Alcohol: 12.65%

Pale in color with explosive aromatics and stout grip. Herbaceous and pine-y notes with black olive brine and sweet aromatics of strawberry jam.

Hand-picked and destemmed into small open-top fermenters. The must received pigeage and/or punchdowns twice daily; fermentation lasted 21 days at which time the wine was pressed down to 500L puncheons and 227L barriques of neutral oak. The wine was racked off of its lees at 14 months and saw a total of 16 months elevage. Bottled unfined & unfiltered with minimal effective SO2.

Grown on the Rorick estate vineyard in Calaveras County, on soils comprised of a layer of schist over dolomite-rich limestone. Elevation of the vineyard in 2000’. The combination of limestone, elevation, and the cold nights of the Sierras produce fruit with depth, texture, and brilliant natural acidity; minimal handling in the winery allows for an honest and pure expression of site and variety to shine through.