Nose
A fresh, bright wine that makes your lips smack with tangy cherries, warm raspberry, salty chalk, cedar and chocolate. Fragrant and focused, this smooth elegant red offers enticing aromas of pressed rose, botanical herb, forest berry and culinary spice.
Palate
On the delicious palate, taut polished tannins accompany succulent morello cherry, raspberry compote, star anise and chopped mint. Fresh acidity keeps it well balanced. It's already drinking beautifully but will offer several years or more of pleasure.
Growing Conditions
Glenrose Vineyard, in west Paso Robles, California, is over 2000 feet in elevation, and planted on very chalky, steep and deeply terraced soils. These conditions stress the vines, which average only about 2 tons yield per acre. The resulting wines are intense and flavorful, with excellent minerality and great propensity for ageing.
Situated not far from their winery among the rolling hillsides of the Adelaida District, Glenrose Vineyard rests over layers of limestone that you can see at various points in the vineyard and at rifts along its ridges. With its calcareous soils, vineyard topography, warm days and cool nights, among other factors, Glenrose Vineyard has become an outstanding source for flavorful and complex wines with enticing minerality.
Winemaking
The grape requires special handling to tame its tendency toward high tannin and acidity
Light colored due to less pigment from its thin grape skins we treat it like Pinot Noir, maximizing skin contact during fermentation and ageing in previously used cooperage.
The aim with this wine is not to imitate the often high-tannin, high-extraction Nebbiolos often associated with Piedmont, but to produce a more elegant and approachable style.
