Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Rose Of Malbec Ward Eisan Vineyard

Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Rose Of Malbec Ward Eisan VineyardWe love rose, so we repurposed our small Malbec block for the 2015 growing season to produce 199 cases of Ros of Malbec. Hand picked on August 24, 2015, the wine is a true Rose, with unforced color and extraction, crisp, dry and fresh, but also present and nuanced ready for the warm, deep evenings just ahead. The grapes were grown at 800 feet of elevation in the block we call our Ward Eisan Vineyard nextSectionThe wine has an exuberant nose of

It is pot-distilled from 80% Black Dirt-grown corn

COLOR: pale lemony gold

the owner of Klinker Brick Winery are 5th generation farmers

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nextSectionDishes that go really well with Bordeaux reds are robust meat dishes especially beef and lamb

This wine reminds us of old time Zinfandel where the fruit is prominent and the wine very honest with great drinkability

Lowrie experienced financial hardship and James Buchanan subsequently bought him out

Brun-Despagne Héritage is one of those rare Bordeaux at the generic level in that it really over-delivers on price/quality ratio

spicy foods

efforts are made to preserve the fruit character by using cultured yeast in combinations with slow fermentations that are temperature controlled

Best Served: Chilled

finishing with spice from the Gewürztraminer