Charles & Charles Rose

The vintage 2016 was on course to be quite like the 2015 which was early and record-breaking warm. However in late august there was a shift temperatures dropped and never warmed back up. For our rose grapes we aim to pick on the early edge of ripeness to maintain fresh savory flavors and to avoid overripe heavy notes though not too early thus loosing flavor. We were deep in to it by early september and went strong through early october. The wine we’ve always been thrilled with the quality of fruit coming in from our growers and while we’ve made subtle adjustments in the fermentations over the years not much has changed with this direct to press process. There was one aspect however that was a huge focus of change for us this year. With the often long distances between many of our vineyards and the winery an increasing percentage of our fruit was arriving at the winery darker and more extracted than we wanted. To remedy this we made a few significant adjustments. Firstly