2022 Domaine Barmes-Buecher Rosenberg Pinot Gris, Alsace, France Chile young vines grown on clay-limestone

young vines grown on clay-limestone soils

and some tannin

along with Santa Barbara County Vineyard Manager Jim Stollberg and Winemaker Dieter Cronje

From the historic Le Chapitre lieu-dit on the limestone-marl slopes above Chenôve

Merlot from Mattituck

2022 Domaine Barmes-Buecher Rosenberg Pinot Gris, Alsace, France Chile young vines grown on clay-limestoneThis is a grape variety that we think we know, like an old friend whose character we could describe by dint of being around it. And one day it calls out to us and invites us to meet up at a sunny vintage. The art then lies in responding to this invitation at the precise moment when the grapes offer the quintessence of the speech engraved in the stones, a prelude to the brilliance and vibrancy that will illuminate the wine. The Pinot Gris Rosenberg