Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 full-bodied

full-bodied

minimal handling

Eight months in tank with bâtonnage builds texture and complexity—a wine that melds dense fruit with mineral vibration and marked salinity

quince kefir

you get a third more wine without having to open a second bottle

Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 full-bodiedThis 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