Dry Rosé

($18/16.20)

Dry Provencal style rosé. Light, pink and ripe with the soft fragrance of tangerine, citrus and strawberries.

THE GRAPES:

• Our Dry Rosé is created from a blend of juices from red grapes.
• The juices used are from the best and most interesting red grapes produced that
  vintage. Therefore the blend may change every year.
• However, it will usually contain juices from the Sangiovese and Merlot grapes
  grown at ARV.

THE WINE:

• • Red wines get color and tannins from grape skins. Róse wines are created by
    removing juice from crushed or pressed red grapes before much color is
    extracted from the skins. This process produces a very light pink colored juice
    with no real tannins in the finished wine. This pink or salmon colored juice is
    then cold fermented like a white wine in SS tanks.
  • The technique of removing juice from crushed red grapes is called a “bleed” or
    “saignee” (pronounced ‘sonyay’) in French and is a traditional French method of
    making Rosé wines. Usually this is done to intensify the remaining red grapes
    prior to fermentation into red wine. Happily it creates a beautiful and flavorful by-
    product – Rosé wines.
  • In our Dry Rosé, we use the bleed from crushed red grapes (usually pumping off
    10-20% of the juice from red Merlot and Cabernet Franc grapes). We also
    dedicate some Sangiovese grapes to be pressed and then blended into our Dry
    Rosè.
  • The juices are cold fermented separately in SS tanks then carefully tasted and
    evaluated for blending into the current year’s dry rose.
  • It is the perfect wine for sushi, shellfish and slightly sweet savory dishes – like
    Ravello’s Pizza “Sweet Meow”.
  • Rosés should be served chilled to 55-60 degrees. It has about 12.5-13%
    alcohol.
  • Our Dry Rosé has no residual sugar (dry), but we do make a sweet pink blush
    wine called Rosalita.

THE NAME:

• NOTE: This wine used to be called Roxanne and was changed to simply Dry
  Rosé to better express the wine’s dry style.

AWARDS:

• Finger Lakes Int’l Wine Competition – 2015 Silver, 2014 Silver, 2013 Bronze,
  2012 GOLD
• U.S. National Wine Competition – 2012 GOLD
• BTI World Value Wine Challenge – 2016 Silver
• BTI World Wine Championships – 2017 Silver, 2012 Bronze
• Bottle2Bottle Competition Best of the Region – 2014 Bronze
• East Meets West Competition – 2014 Bronze
• International Women’s Wine Competition – 2013 Bronze
• American Wine Tasting by James Suckling – 2018 Score 86
• BTI NJ Wine Competition – 2018 Silver
• NJ Wine Competition – 2015 Bronze

Recipes

Our chef and partner chefs are working on the perfect recipes to pair with this wine.

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