This is Todd and Crystal's third year working with fruit from this site, and this was one of the favorites of their lineup last year! Kind of a chillable red, kind of a rosé, this wine shows Todd's true mastery of making wines from hybrid grapes. Hybrid grapes can have a foxiness or "grapeyness" that comes through in the wine, but it all disappears in this blend into a candied fruit character that puts this wine squarely in the Glou Glou category, with tart strawberry, cranberry, and cherry all poking through on the nose, and a similar red-fruit salad across the broad but focused palate. Drink chilled!
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Type: Rosé
Vintage: 2019
Size: 750ml
ABV: 10.7%
Grape: A dozen mixed red and white hybrid varieties, including Frontenac, La Crescent, Marquette, Cayuga, Leon Millot, Vidal, and several others
Region: Washington County, New York
Vinification: The dozen red, white, and pink hybrid varieties were all harvested together, and the fruit was carbonically macerated in whole clusters in a sealed tank for 5 days and then foot tread and macerated for 2 more days before being pressed into a stainless tank. Zero SO2 added. Practicing organic.