Stoke Rosé 2022

This is made from cabernet sauvignon from our Cassini vineyard. Hand-picked fruit was destemmed and pressed. The juice is cold-settled partly to drop some solids out for a clean ferment, but also to drop acid so you don’t get a “gusher”. Cross-inoculated from our rosé which was humming along nicely. Fermented cool to retain aroma. Once dry it was cold settled again then racked off its solids. Frozen juice was added back just before bottling under crown seal for secondary fermentation.