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Pedernales Cellars Garnacha Rosé

Pedernales Cellars Garnacha Rosé Wine Details
Price: $15.00 per bottle

Description: This varietal, also known as Grenache in France makes a beatiful dry rosé wine. The nose is a balance of apples and pears with a touch of honey and apricot. This wine is best enjoyed chilled. The 2008 Garnacha was made with grapes from Reddy Vineyards on the Texas High Plains and was fermented in stainless steel with limited skin contact.

Varietal Definition
Grenache:
Grenache Noir is the world’s most widely planted grape used to make red wine, sometimes made into a stand-alone varietal, frequently as a Rosé, but most often as a backbone of red blends. Its strength is its ability to grow in arid and windy conditions. It’s particularly suited to warm coastal regions of California, Spain and France. Grenache-based wines tend to be high in alcohol, with attractive fruit qualities in youth and a sweet berry character.Used as a component in some Northern Rhône reds, nearly exclusively for Rhône Rosés and as the primary component in nearly all Southern Rhône red blends, Grenache is probably most notable as the base varietal for Chateauneuf du Pape, Cotes du Rhône and Gigondas. In spite of its fame coming from French wines, Spain is most likely this grape’s origin.


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