Winemaker Notes
The 2018 Baileyana Rose of Pinot Noir was harvested at two levels of ripeness to preserve freshness and its elegant fruit flavor. This wine is light pink, almost salmon in color, with fruit flavors bursting from the glass, including watermelon, strawberry, peach, and melon with hints of rose petal and red raspberry.
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 dish.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Baileyana Rosé of Pinot Noir delivers a plethora of deliciousness. TASTING NOTES: This wine is bright and elevated. Enjoy its lovely aromas of dried earth and strawberries with lightly-seasoned, oven-roasted pork tenderloin. (Tasted: December 17, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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.