Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Lioco Indica Rosé of Carignan is a biting-fine wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine is bright, fresh, and perfect for food lovers. Its aromas and flavors of refreshing red fruit, lively citrus, and savory spices make it an excellent pairing with grilled shrimp in a piquant raspberry sauce. (Tasted: August 19, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine & Spirits
Lioco makes this wine from head-pruned carignan in Talmage, planted at the Bartolomei Vineyard in the 1940s. The old vines deliver a rosé with intensity and a pleasant bitter edge to its strawberry-and-black-pepper flavors. Chill it for pork rillettes. (2,400 cases)
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.
A large and diverse appellation within California’s North Coast AVA, Mendocino is home to several smaller sub-regions—most notably the Anderson Valley. This scenic region, with rolling hills covered in redwood forests as well as vineyards, is one of the world’s top producers of certified organically-grown grapes. Due to wide geographical and climatic variation, a vast array of wine styles can be found here.