2025 Rose of Carignan, Mendocino County

AROMA
pink grapefruit, guava jelly, white rose
FLAVOR
pickled strawberry, candied orange peel, nectarine pit
FOOD PAIRINGS
salmon burger, salad Niçoise, fig+burrata toast

As has been our practice since 2023, we took our blocks of
octogenarian dry-farmed, head-trained Carignan, as well as a couple of
bins of Grenache Gris abandoned by another winery. To brighten (and
lighten) the wine, we stopped crushing the fruit before pressing and
simply whole-cluster pressed it. This newer approach to what is our
17th installment of Rosé just hits different. The abnormally cool growing
season in 2025 was well-suited to producing bright wines. Perfect for
Rosé. Once again, the wine comes exclusively from Rory and Vince
Bartolomei’s vineyard in Talmage, Mendocino. Visiting Talmage feels like
rewinding the clock a century, a place where locals still ride into town on
horseback and time moves at its own pace. The Bartolomei brothers
are as singular as the place itself — characters rooted deeply in land
and lineage. Their ranch, planted more than eighty years ago, is home
to stoic old vines that have been dry-farmed for generations, weathering
decades with quiet resilience while many of their neighbors have given
up on grapes. Drinking Barto Rosé is a vote with your feet in support of
original, authentic Mendocino growers.