The wine has a light color with a pale garnet hue, but it is huge in flavor. The wine exhibits explosive aromatics of herbaceous notes, pine, black olive brine, and sweet strawberry jam. The grapes were grown on limestone soils, which contribute to the wine's texture, aromatics, and stout grip. The grapes were destemmed prior to fermentation to bring out the fine-grain tannins in the skins without additional stem tannins. The wine was fermented with a light cap management regimen using gentle irrigation instead of vigorous pigeage or pumpovers. This wine is noteworthy for its combination of pale color, explosive aromatics, and stout grip, stemming entirely from the vine's interaction with the limestone soils and alpine growing season.
