Rootdown Trousseau Cole Ranch 2023 Wine Seminar with a dusty old oak

with a dusty old oak cask quality

Perched on the ruins of a Roman villa in Languedoc

A single cask rum matured and bottled in Scotland

layered with notes of rose petals

airy wine brimming with tropical and citrus peel notes layered with jasmine and mineral complexity

Rootdown Trousseau Cole Ranch 2023 Wine Seminar with a dusty old oakTrousseau is a Jura red pale, perfumed, far more about earth and spice than fruit and Mike Lucia grafted it at Cole Ranch in 2020, inside America's smallest AVA. This is one of the first releases off those vines. Everything was destemmed and fermented in an egg shaped tank, a deliberate choice to keep the variety's identity intact rather than bury it under stems and extraction. Lucia picks for earth and texture rather than power, so the alcohol stays