Alonso & Pedrajo Suane Rosado Reserva 2020 0426JACKSON sunny vintage

sunny vintage

and keeping new oak at 15% or less

Maranges sits at the southern tip of the Cote de Beaune and tends to give Pinot Noir a bit more structure and dark fruit

giving it a touch more flesh while Givry's bright limestone keeps it honest

fermented with native yeasts and aged on the lees in bottle for at least a year

Alonso & Pedrajo Suane Rosado Reserva 2020 0426JACKSON sunny vintageThis is not a poolside rose. Alonso & Pedrajo, a young Rioja Alta project farming high altitude vines at the region's cool western edge, make their Suane rosado the old fashioned, serious way, with white and red grapes given skin contact and then aged in French oak. The result is pale salmon in the glass but structured and savory on the palate, with real texture and a mineral spine. It's a rose built for the dinner table rather than the aperitif hour.