Roark - 'DOTS' - Syrah - Santa Barbara County, CA - 2022
Regular price $36.00
Satellite's Hot Take
A stupidly delicious wine that's come into its own as we've watched it over the past few years. Currently drinking like extremely delicious Santa Maria Pinot Noir with a subtle coastal kelp on cherry fruit vibe. It's a vibrant wine with a depth that betrays its short maceration - but its clear that the excellent farming at Demetria has everything to do with that. Drink Up!
Notes from the Winery/Importer
I love making light red wines and in 2022 we brought in some syrah from Demetria that we left on the skins for only 4 days before pressing with the idea that we would see how it tasted. We have made grenache, pinot and zinfandel like this but wanted to see how syrah would do and it is glorious! Jenn tasted it and put together a lovely label inspired by the light red color and subtle green herbaceous notes. When Emily and I saw the label we knew it needed a cool name and couldn’t quickly come up with anything compelling. Then DOTS came to mind, Don’t Over Think Shit! Throw a few of these in the cooler at your next BBQ. -Ryan Roark, Winemaker
Notes on the Producer
Making wine is the last step in the growing of grapes, the preservation of the crop, the enological encapsulation of the vintage. Sometimes inspired by the classics and other times the avant garde we strive to make elegantly energetic wines that reflect the vintage, variety, and vineyard.
Growing grapes and making wine is quite the process and we are guided by the following question; is it necessary? Each additional step in the process takes you one step further away from the grapes, further away from the vines, further away from the simplest expression.
Who?
Ryan, Jenn, and Ellis Roark
In 2009 two monumental things occurred, Ryan made his first batch of Roark Wine Co. wine and he met Jenn. In 2016 they had Ellis and if he wants he can be a winemaker.
Our process is guided by nature with the goal being wine made from responsibly farmed vineyards with as little added or taken away as possible.
Many of the grapes used in our fermentations come from vineyards we farm ourselves or in partnership with other growers. These wines are often our proudest work. When we purchase grapes we seek out growers with similar values.
In the cellar our mantra is “naturally made, classically styled.” Only minimal effective amounts of sulfur are used and the wines are neither fined nor filtered. For me this approach is timeless but ever evolving as I continue to explore the world of wine.