Rootdown Trousseau Cole Ranch 2023 Wine Seminar layered with notes of rose

layered with notes of rose petals

with a dusty old oak cask quality

The soils are dominated by fluffy white volcanic ash that has washed down over the centuries from the nearby flanks of Mount Veeder

The nose is floral and delicate at first

A single cask rum matured and bottled in Scotland

Rootdown Trousseau Cole Ranch 2023 Wine Seminar layered with notes of roseTrousseau is a Jura red pale, perfumed, far more about earth and spice than fruit and Mike Lucia grafted it at Cole Ranch in 2020, inside America's smallest AVA. This is one of the first releases off those vines. Everything was destemmed and fermented in an egg shaped tank, a deliberate choice to keep the variety's identity intact rather than bury it under stems and extraction. Lucia picks for earth and texture rather than power, so the alcohol stays