2025 “The Drip” divergent vine
Fair Play | El Dorado Co.
Estate Rosè
Crafted for Rosé All Day
Tasting Notes
Experience “The Drip” as the bright, fresh, zingy acidity dances over your tongue, laced with mineral notes framed by tangerine, under ripe wild strawberry, and citrusy lemon-lime. This fun, easy drinking rosé is meant to be leisurly sipped all day long. Rosé all day!
Only 22 cases produced.
Winemaking
Gold Dust Vineyard Estate Blend Composition: 70% Rosé of Tempranillo 30% Rosé of Primitivo
The rosés were natively fermented separately in a combination of stainless steel and old French Oak barrles and blended 3 week prior to bottling with intention of making a light, restrained, easy drinking rosé reminiscent of Old World “cafe” wine for leisurely sipping all day.
Aging: 8 months in old French Oak and stainless steel barrels
12.9% Alc. by Vol.
Ingredients: indigenous yeast, organic grapes, California sun, 15PPM SO2 at bottling to protect for aging.
Bottled without fining or filtration
Winemaker Notes
Fair Play Viticultural Area
Located in southern El Dorado County, the Fair Play AVA is one of the smallest viticultural areas in California, also boasting one of the highest elevations as well, with nearly all grapes grown between 2,000’ - 3,000’ elevation. The combination of high elevation plantings with the granitic and loam soils produce world-class wines with both complexity as well as lively structure.
Vintage
The 2025 vintage was marked by a cool Spring with a snowfall in April, creating a late start to the growing season. The weather warmed up significantly in early July, with a week-long heat wave. This heat kick-started verasion and left behind some sunburn damage in the vineyard. Once the damaged fruit was dropped, August cooled down significantly (not one day over 100 degrees!) which flowed into September, given us the benefit a little extra hang time for sugar and phenolic development.