Rootdown Wine Cellars Trousseau Rose St. Amant Vineyard 2025
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Rootdown Wine Cellars Trousseau Rose St. Amant Vineyard 2025

Rootdown Wine Cellars
$24.00

Grape: Trousseau
Vintage: 2025
Type: Rosé

This dry rosé wine is a pure varietal expression of the trousseau grape produced by winemaker Ryan Pancost in California. The fruit is hand-harvested from the organically farmed St. Amant Vineyard, which is rooted in sandy loam soils. The winemaking involves foot-treading and a twenty-four hour skin maceration prior to pressing, followed by a native yeast fermentation in neutral oak barrels; the liquid is racked to stainless steel tanks as early as possible to safeguard varietal freshness.

It pours a pale copper-pink color, opening with clean aromatics of alpine strawberry, fresh sage, and subtle mountain spice. A lightweight and crisp frame balances delicate red fruit profiles with a green apple acidity. A light touch of tea-like tannins provides a gentle structural grip that frames the clean mid-palate nicely. The texture remains light on its feet, avoiding any heavy or sweet components. It concludes with a clean, dry, and stony finish.

Rootdown Wine Cellars was founded in 2014 by Mike Lucia, a Sonoma County native whose experience includes Ridge, Goldeneye and Copain. The name refers to the vine's relationship with soil, and the project has evolved toward organically farmed, site-specific wines with a particular fascination for Jura varieties. Rootdown now works closely with Cole Ranch in Mendocino, producing Trousseau, Poulsard, Savagnin, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir alongside wine from old dry-farmed Riesling and Bordeaux varieties. The cellar approach is restrained and transparent, yielding energetic, food-friendly wines that favor freshness, texture and savory complexity over polish or weight.