Vineyard: Ricetti

AVA: Redwood Valley, Mendocino, CA

Farming: Organic, Dry Farmed

Harvest Date: 22 September 2025

Bottling Date: 8 April 2026

Alc: 11%

Cases: 100

Just like last in 2024, for the 2025 harvest we did a separate rosé pick 2 weeks before the main red Carignan pick.  Despite the warm vintage, the Carignan at Ricetti ripened slowly, and by late September it looked and tasted ready, but the sugar was still relatively low – not yet enough for red wine, but perfect for rosé.  At the winery the fruit was foot crushed and left on skins for a few hours, and then pressed, with the goal of some color extraction to make a distinctly pink rose.

Once pressed, the juice settled overnight, then was racked off gross less to stainless steel and fermented in tank. It fermented slowly in tank, over the course of 20 days.  After primary fermentation finished, the wine was racked to half neutral oak and half stainless steel barrels, where it went through malolactic fermentation.  Neutral oak and stainless steel aged separately for 6 months, then were racked together to tank in late March for bottling.

Indigenous yeast fermentation.  SO2: 30 ppm total.  No other additions, unfined and unfiltered.

‘enhorabuena’ means congratulations, and more literally, ‘in the good hour’.