2024 Helen Dusschee Rose

Winemaking and Notes: This was picked while there were still berries that had not changed color on the cluster and accordingly this was picked at 19.5 brix (thus the 12.5% alcohol) and a TA of 7.9 which gives the wine its bright, lifted character. These gangly clusters were lightly whole-bunch pressed and racked a few times off the lees before permanently residing in a stainless steel tank for about six months before being bottled before finishing malolactic fermentation. This wine is bone-dry with plenty of acidity, yet it comes off as easy on the palate and very much ready to be drunk over the next several months.  There are tons of rosés being made in the world, many by wineries that are simply passing along juice drained off red wine cuvées or making stuff out of grapes that don’t really make great rosé. Buy your pink wine from a winery that has a sterling reputation for great varietal wine as well as making one of the world’s greatest blueberry wines and a line of whiskeys that compete with any whiskey on the planet. Rosé is meant to be fun, but making it is still a serious job if you want actual, real wine in the end. This wine finished with a TA of 6.8 and a pH of 3.14. Due to the high acidities a minimal amount of SO2 was used and the wine has a free SO2 of under 20 ppm and a total ppm of under 50 ppm.