Tatomer Rose of Pinot Noir 2021
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This is the fifth Rosé made from Green Gate vineyard in Edna Valley. This soil can be challenging for a traditional Pinot Noir due to the mineral edge it gives this wine. However, in a Rosé, this same mineral edge is desirable to balance out all the lush fruit character in the wine. It is all Pinot Noir clone 777 grown on serpentine and chert, the precursor to slate. The resulting wine illustrates this clearly. The wine is both edgy and rich.
Not only is the wine easy to drink like a Rosé should be, but it pairs well with food. Enjoy this wine with Spring vegetables, cedar plank salmon, or roast chicken.
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Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.