The nose on this is explosive and inviting with tangerine, melon and cucumber. It is light and delicate but still bright. Bordering on being medium bodied the palate has white peach and cherries. I would drink this all day long, food or no food, friends or no friends. Just all day.
The grapes were hand-harvested, carefully destemmed, crushed and pumped into a tank for overnight contact on the skins to obtain the desired levels of color and flavor extraction. This was achieved overnight and then the must was gently pressed and most (75%) of it was transferred to an egg-shaped tank for fermentation while a small portion (25%) was fermented in a twice-used French oak barrel. Fermentation took place over 2 weeks at 60-65˚F. After primary fermentation was completed, malolactic fermentation was inhibited and the wine was left to rest for 4 months. The wine was then racked off of the fermentation lees, cold stabilized, sterile filtered and bottled on February 7, 2022.
100 cases produced.
2021 Brockmeyer Rosé of Grenache
$21.00
Cederquist Vineyard was originally planted in the 1890s and was producing when the Cederquists bought the neighboring property in 1904. The original Grenache plantings of just under 2 acres were planted with 8’x10’ spacing. In the 1940s the vineyard was acquired by the Cederquist family and expanded to its current size of 12 acres with additional plantings of Grenache on 8’x12’ spacing. This wine comes from the original 1890s plantings.