Baileyana Rose of Pinot Noir 2017
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The bright acidity creates a delightful freshness that makes this an ideal wine for the warmer months and a perfect year-round complement to salads, seafood, and any light dishes.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Baileyana is one of the Central Coast growing region's top stars. The 2017 Rosé of Pinot Noir is an excellent example of the winery's work. TASTING NOTES: This wine is beautiful in color and balance. Its aromas and flavors of apple jelly, raspberry, and zesty stone fruits should pair it famously with fresh salmon sashimi. (Tasted: May 15, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
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Freshly snapped bubblegum shows on the nose of this bottling, which also offers pillowy aromas of strawberry and rose petal. Fresh zippy acidity and a taut texture frame the sip, where the bubblegum flavors are cut by lemon juice and crushed chalk.
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Medium-light pink with a strawberry nose; smooth, dry, and crisp with racy acidity; smooth texture with a long finish.
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Over 35 years ago, Catharine Niven envisioned a small vineyard in front of her Edna Valley home that would deliver high quality wines.
To achieve her goal, she bucked popular California viticultural trends and looked to the old world for her inspiration. She was one of the first women to own a winery and one who wasn’t afraid to do things differently. Baileyana, named for the place where she met her husband Jack, soon outgrew her small home vineyard. It has since been sourced from their estate Paragon Vineyard, Jack’s pioneering plantings going back to 1973. Baileyana offers beautiful, cool-climate Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, which are refined, rich, and perfectly balanced. She wasn’t entirely surprised by Baileyana’s early success, but Catharine didn’t dream that her small project would become the family legacy that it is today.
Now in the expert hands of the next two generations, the wines remain true to her pioneering spirit, as well as to the genuine, elegant style she exuded when walking into any room.
Whether it’s playful and fun or savory and serious, most rosé today is not your grandmother’s White Zinfandel, though that category remains strong. Pink wine has recently become quite trendy, and this time around it’s commonly quite dry. Since the pigment in red wines comes from keeping fermenting juice in contact with the grape skins for an extended period, it follows that a pink wine can be made using just a brief period of skin contact—usually just a couple of days. The resulting color depends on grape variety and winemaking style, ranging from pale salmon to deep magenta.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.