Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 NET slightly sweet stone-fruit driven sparkler

slightly sweet stone-fruit driven sparkler

lively and fruit-driven wine which is best enjoyed with food

and botanicals

It comes from a sliver of Chardonnay planted up on the plateau above Premeaux-Prissey

It is joyful and fully serious all at once

Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 NET slightly sweet stone-fruit driven sparklerThis 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