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2023 Roussanne - Los Olivos District AVA

2023 Roussanne - Los Olivos District AVA

$36.00 USD
$36.00 USD
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This wine comes from Tagabelle vineyard, a three acre organic vineyard owned and farmed by the Bolton Family in Los Olivos. This wine had an unconventional inception! I wasn’t always intending to make a single vineyard Roussanne. Instead, I had first sought out Tagabelle Vineyard to make Sundrop, the fermented field blend of Rhone whites, but after tasting the Roussanne in the field and looking at the chemistry I knew this Roussanne  would be something special on its own. So I had to do it! I made 3 barrels of Roussanne fermented separately from the coferment, and a single vineyard Roussanne was born. This wine has a special clarity that is difficult to find in rhone whites. This wine will certainly withstand the test of time.

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We harvested the Roussanne and brought it to the winery to press directly. The Roussanne settled for 1 day as juice in a tank and was then racked via gravity to neutral French oak barrels for primary and secondary fermentation. The wine stayed on its fermentation lees for 9 months and was racked to tank a month before being bottled unfined and unfiltered in July 2024.

Tasting Notes

The Roussanne is much more tense and mineral than you think you’ll get from a rhone white. Sunshine, hot days, late nights, crisp salad. This wine likes anything you love.

Wine Details

  • 12.9%ABV
  • 63 cases produces
  • Certified organic grapes, minimal sulfites
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  • about the label

    Art: The native bee feeding on the deerweed was painted by my mom, Eileen Anderson. Bombus crotchii is a California native bee that is rapidly declining in population throughout the state due to improper use of insecticides. Luckily for us, these native bees grace our hedgerow and understory plants beneath our vineyard rows daily. The flower on the front is Acmispon glaber, also known as deerweed. Deerweed is planted in our hedgerow and is found readily in the native scrub around Los Olivos District.. Deerweed is also in the Fabacae family, which means its nitrogen fixing! It’s a pretty cool plant if you ask me!