Rootdown Trousseau Cole Ranch 2023 Wine Seminar airy wine brimming with tropical

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

layered with notes of rose petals

This is what Occidental does best: faithful interpretations of European lager traditions

The nose is floral and delicate at first

Rootdown Trousseau Cole Ranch 2023 Wine Seminar airy wine brimming with tropicalTrousseau 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