Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 Reasonable Cellar It's 50% direct press chardonnay

It's 50% direct press chardonnay blended with 50% skin contact chardonnay

Dark and rich in both color and style

oaky flavors with notes of candied almonds and very rich cocoa

What happens in the cellar

A sparkling rose made from an obscure grape called albarossa

Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 Reasonable Cellar It's 50% direct press chardonnayThis is Syrah grown in a place cold enough that it probably shouldn't work, and that is exactly why it does. Love & Terroir sources from a small sandy parcel on the Melville estate in the Sta. Rita Hills, where the nutrient starved soil keeps the vines struggling and the fruit intense. Fermented with 80% whole clusters and left on skins and stems for 35 days, it comes out with the peppery, savory, borderline feral character that cool climate Syrah