Llewelyn "Sorry Somehow" Rose California 2025

Notes from the winemaker Pete Bloomberg :

Each year I get a little better at timing. I want wines to reverberate with the season of their release, but I also don't want them to feel forced and molded by crass commercialization. Hopefully this is a poignant but balanced one for the summer. This is 50% short maceration (24-hour) rose of Petaluma Gap Pinot Noir and 50% long infusion (90% juice, 10% skins) Sauvignon Blanc from Redwood Valley in Mendocino.

My close friend and organic farming guru David grows the Pinot Noir in Petaluma. For the real heads, this is up on Lakeville Highway, a mile or so up from Sears Point, very much
influenced by the Gap and San Pablo Bay. From the high points you can see the shadows of Bay Area bridges. The SB is from the oak woodlands on the north side of
Redwood Valley, from Upton Vineyard. It came in pretty lean and wanting to coax out more aromatics from a sort of Sancerre-feeling site, I pressed the majority of the grapes and floated a small amount of skins on top until dry. Both wines were then blended and moved into large-format puncheons until bottling in the spring.

Very lithe and nimble, but with enough fruit presence and texture to make it worthy of
the table. Summery without being too on the nose, and enough character to avoid the
realm of innocuous acid water roses. I recently enjoyed a bottle at the snowmelt-fed
Lyell Fork in Tuolumne Meadows, at Edwards Crossing on the Yuba River, and in a pool
at a friend's grandparents' second home in Palm Springs. This is a wine certified for
aquatic recreation, be it naturally occurring or man-made.

tl;dr: Rose of Pinot Noir and macerated Sauvignon Blanc. Electric and spritely.
Spa water, pink grapefruit, preserved lemon, ideally enjoyed in high-altitude
rivers.