Margins "Rosy Wake" Rosé 2024

A chillable tasty morsel! Ruby red with salmon highlights. Very aromatic, mouthwatering, fruity watermelon and pommegranite notes, complex and mouth-puckering, like being inside a watermelon jolly rancher. It’s a light red or a dark rosé, depending on what you want it to be. Instead of bottling direct-to-press classic rosé, winemaker Megan Bell blended some red wine into the rosés to increase body and adjust the hue.

30% Grenache Rosé (Paicines Ranch), 30% Barbera Rosé (Santa Cruz Mountains), 30% Sangiovese (Cienega Valley), 5% Pinot Noir (Santa Cruz Mountains), 3% Mourvèdre (San Benito County), 2% Verdejo (Paicines Ranch), all farmed organically. Fermented and aged separately, then blended right before bottling. Native fermentation, no fining, no filtration, no other modifications or additions except 30 ppm of sulfur dioxide the week before bottling.

Margins Wine produces low-intervention wines using grapes from underrepresented regions, vineyards, and varietals, and is part of the growing movement in California to make wines from organically farmed vineyards using little to no additives during the winemaking process, thereby showcasing the vineyards the grapes came from.

Much like people living on the ‘margins of society,’ vineyards can be outcasts too. Most consumers of wine are only familiar with a handful of grapegrowing regions and types of wine. Margins draws attention to vineyards and varietals throughout northern and central California that find themselves on the margins without the recognition they deserve.

Margins Wine is a small winemaking project of Megan Bell, a winemaker living and working in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Prior to settling on the central coast of California, Megan received her BS in Viticulture and Enology from UC Davis and apprenticed in wineries and vineyards in Napa, the Livermore Valley, the Willamette Valley, Central Otago (NZ), and the Loire Valley (France).