Non-Vintage • Post Flirtation Rosé NV No. 4

Post Flirtation Rosé NV No. 4

Varietal:

75% Nero d’Avola, 25% Vermentino

Alcohol:

12.5%

Vinification Notes:

Whole cluster Nero d’Avola was first foot-tread for an overnight maceration on skins before pressing, then fermented and aged on its fine lees in neutral vessels. Vermentino pressed immediately and fermented separately in stainless steel prior to blending with the base Nero d’Avola rosato wine. Unfined. Filtered for stability.

Vineyard:

Nero d’Avola from Bricarelli Ranch, Ukiah, Mendocino County; head trained vines planted in 2008; dry farmed (non-irrigated) vineyard, farmed by us to organic principles (no pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic fertilizers); gravelly loam soils.

Vermentino from The Bench Vineyard, Clements Hills, San Joaquin County; certified organic and biodynamic vineyard; sandy loam soils.

Martha's Notes

Our Post Flirtation wines have been described as “intergenerational crowd pleasers” and Post Flirtation Rosé celebrates the culmination of intergenerational efforts behind the scenes, too. The vineyard source of younger-vine Nero d’Avola for this non vintage blend is both dry farmed (non-irrigated) and employs head trained (goblet) vines. These agricultural practices are certainly not the short-cut to growing grapes commercially today (especially for rosé wines!), but the efforts produce distinctive wines full of concentration, particularly at lower alcohol, and allows the vineyard to develop slowly in order to preserve a longer lifespan. While we adore old, dry farmed vines—and will fight to keep them in the ground—it is equally important to us to seek out and support newer head trained, dry farmed plantings. Few people are still planting vineyards out this way, but these young, dry farmed vines will become the resilient, complex, and treasured old vines of future generations.