Winemaker Notes
Our trademark pale pink “eye of the partridge color,” prized by rose producers in France’s premier growing areas in Provence, marks the 2020 Space age Rose as another success story. The wine is tantalizing, with fresh, clean notes of bright Bing cherry, strawberry, and watermelon. On the palate, the fruit is enhanced by crisp acidity and flavors of chilled, freshly harvested grapes, just as we tasted them on the day of harvest.
42% Grenache, 22% Mourvèdre, 19% Syrah, 9% Grenache Blanc, 4% Carignane, 4% Counoise Vintage: 2020
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
A lovely shade of pink, this rosé booms on the nose with strawberry and raspberry-sorbet aromas that are cut by a citrusy edge. The acidity is bold on the palate, slicing through the ripe stone-fruit and cherry flavors, as tangerine pith provides a counterpoint.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 Grounded Wine Co. Space Age Rosé is a pink wine for food lovers. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers vibrant and fresh red fruit aromas and flavors that stay crisp through the wine's finish. Pair it with citrus-accented grilled prawns. (Tasted: April 13, 2021, 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.
The largest and perhaps most varied of California’s wine-growing regions, the Central Coast produces a good majority of the state's wine. This vast California wine district stretches from San Francisco all the way to Santa Barbara along the coast, and reaches inland nearly all the way to the Central Valley.
Encompassing an extremely diverse array of climates, soil types and wine styles, it contains many smaller sub-AVAs, including San Francisco Bay, Monterey, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Paso Robles, Edna Valley, Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Maria Valley.
While the Central Coast California wine region could probably support almost any major grape varietiy, it is famous for a few Central Coast reds and whites. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel are among the major ones. The Central Coast is home to many of the state's small, artisanal wineries crafting unique, high-quality wines, as well as larger producers also making exceptional wines.