Growing Conditions
The Rossi Ranch has many different soils and it’s a fabulous visual to look at the overhead Google image of the vineyard with its patchwork of different colors. For this wine, I’m using the Alban clone of Syrah grown on the red soils. These soils are very limiting and the vines and berries are smaller and more exposed to the sun. The resulting wine is darker, bigger and with decidedly more structure and tannin.
Bottling
Bottling Date July 13, 2015.
Winemaking
The vineyards are less than a mile apart, the wines are made the same way (with no added yeast and fermentation in open top tanks) and aging is in French oak barrels.
