Variety: Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Barbera, Grignolino
Location: North Coast, CA
Alcohol: 11.5%

This rosé shows all the bright and fresh sides of rosé with a pronounced structure to pair with food. There is a play between savory versus fresh and subtlety versus power that make this wine very intriguing. The aromas are wound up around orange peel, grapefruit, alpine herbs, peach, wildflowers and sea spray. The four varieties can all be seen in the structure: Nebbiolo and Grignolino lend the crunchy minerality, Dolcetto lends a delicate softness, and Barbera lends bright acid.

Grapes were picked together at the moment when their different qualities and stages of ripeness came together and were complimentary. Grapes were whole cluster pressed, fermented via native yeast, left on all the lees and solids, aged in neutral oak, and underwent native secondary fermentation and aging on lees in neutral oak for four months.

While the wine is designated as North Coast, the fruit largely comes from Fox Hill Vineyard. Located southeast of Ukiah on Mendocino’s Talmage Bench, the soils are well drained with high concentrations of gravel and sandstone.