Âmevive - Roussanne - Los Olivos District, Santa Barabra, CA - 2023
Regular price $63.00
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Notes from the Winery/Importer
The Roussanne is much more tense and mineral than you think you’ll get from a rhone white. Sunshine, hot days, late nights, crisp salad. This wine likes anything you love.
This wine comes from Tagabelle vineyard, a three acre organic vineyard owned and farmed by the Bolton Family in Los Olivos. This wine had an unconventional inception! I wasn’t always intending to make a single vineyard Roussanne. Instead, I had first sought out Tagabelle Vineyard to make Sundrop, the fermented field blend of Rhone whites, but after tasting the Roussanne in the field and looking at the chemistry I knew this Roussanne would be something special on its own. So I had to do it! I made 3 barrels of Roussanne fermented separately from the coferment, and a single vineyard Roussanne was born. This wine has a special clarity that is difficult to find in rhone whites. This wine will certainly withstand the test of time.
We harvested the Roussanne and brought it to the winery to press directly. The Roussanne settled for 1 day as juice in a tank and was then racked via gravity to neutral French oak barrels for primary and secondary fermentation. The wine stayed on its fermentation lees for 9 months and was racked to tank a month before being bottled unfined and unfiltered in July 2024.
- 12.9%ABV
- 63 cases produces
- Certified organic grapes, minimal sulfites
about the label - Art: The native bee feeding on the deerweed was painted by my mom, Eileen Anderson. Bombus crotchii is a California native bee that is rapidly declining in population throughout the state due to improper use of insecticides. Luckily for us, these native bees grace our hedgerow and understory plants beneath our vineyard rows daily. The flower on the front is Acmispon glaber, also known as deerweed. Deerweed is planted in our hedgerow and is found readily in the native scrub around Los Olivos District.. Deerweed is also in the Fabacae family, which means its nitrogen fixing! It’s a pretty cool plant if you ask me!
Notes on the Producer
Pronunciation: "ahm-veev" Translation: soulful, lively soul, living soul the emotional part of human nature; the seat of the feelings or sentiments. high-mindedness; noble warmth of feeling, spirit or courage. the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity and separate from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
We lease and farm the Ibarra-Young Vineyard in Los Olivos District A.V.A.
This vineyard was planted by Charlotte Young in 1971 and is still owned by her three daughters. Charlotte's right-hand man, Miguel Ibarra, Helped her plant the vineyard in 1971 and continued to work on the vineyard for more than 40 years. Today, we celebrate this duo by designating these 10 acres as the Ibarra-Young Vineyard.
Ibarra-Young Vineyard was one of the first vineyards planted in the Santa Ynez Valley and has so much soul you can feel it. The first 3 acres were planted in 1971 and 3 more acres were planted in 1973. In the late 90's and early 2000's Bob Lindquist completed Ibarra-Young's planted acreage with the "young" vines in the rockier section of the vineyard.
The vineyard is planted to Syrah and Mourvèdre planted in 1971, Marsanne planted in 1973, as well as suitcase clone Tempranillo and Graciano planted in the late 90's. Everything on the property is own-rooted and has been farmed organically since 1993. We began leasing and farming this special place at the beginning of 2020 and employ regenerative organic and biodynamic practices.
Our goal is to rebuild an ecosystem of native species that live alongside our vine rows, regenerate soil health, and grow the highest quality grapes this site can give. We believe the best wine grapes are grown with minimal inputs and conscious vineyard management. We reject a systematic schedule for viticulture and farming in general. We believe that by working in conjunction with nature we can increase biodiversity and soil health, minimize unnecessary sprays, minimize tractor passes and compaction, decrease water use, and reduce our carbon footprint.
We look forward to taking you along on this journey of unconventional viticulture with us. We hope to convince you that with a lot of passion and hard work, world-class wines are made with minimal intervention in a vineyard that grows alongside a healthy living ecosystem.