Rosé

Rosé 2020: A blend of six Boxwood varieties, all estate grown.  Sauvignon Blanc added to balance wine and increase aromas.  Each variety bled separately and cool fermented with tailored yeasts.  Crisp acidity, soft tannins, and full-bodied, with refreshing finish. | 87 PTS, Wine Advocate

Here at Boxwood, when the fruit for red wines is harvested and put into the fermenters, skins and all, after 24-48 hours we will often drain about 20% of the juice from the fermenter. This does two things for us: it concentrates the remaining ~80% of the juice for reds with 100% of the skins where color, flavor and aromatic components are extracted into the young wine in the fermentation process. This approach has a name: saignée, or “bleeding” of some juice from the fermenter. The other part of this is that it provides a lightly colored juice to produce the rosé. It is that juice which provides the base of this wine. When it’s time to develop the blend from these lots, we also work with Sauvignon Blanc to see if it helps balance the wine and bring some aromatics to the blend. So for the 2020 rosé we have added 18% Sauvignon Blanc.

2020 was another good growing season providing a large and high quality crop. It lingered a little behind 2019 time-wise as we began the reds harvest on September 19th, 9 days later than the first pick of 2019.