Emme Wines "Enhorabuena" Carignan Rosé 2025

"Enhorabuena" means "congratulations," and more literally, "in the good hour."

Just as in 2024, for the 2025 harvest Rosalind did a separate rosé pick two weeks before the main red Carignan pick. Despite the warm vintage, the Carignan at Ricetti Vineyard ripened slowly, and by late September, it looked and tasted ready, but the sugar was still relatively low – not yet enough for red wine, but perfect for rosé. At the winery, the fruit was foot-crushed and left on skins for a few hours, then pressed, with the goal of some color extraction to make a distinctly pink rosé.

Once pressed, the juice settled overnight, then was racked off the gross less to stainless steel and fermented in tank slowly, over the course of 20 days. After primary fermentation finished, the wine was racked to half neutral oak and half stainless steel barrels, where it went through malolactic fermentation. Neutral oak and stainless steel aged separately for six months, then were racked together to tank in late March for bottling. Indigenous yeast fermentation. SO2: 30 ppm total. No other additions, unfined and unfiltered. 100 cases produced.

Based in Sonoma, California, Rosalind Reynolds founded Emme Wines (named after her grandmother) in 2018 after years in the industry alongside the likes of Les Capriades, Martha Stoumen, and Pax (where she is also the assistant winemaker). Rosalind focuses on "old school" California varietals, like Carignan, Colombard, Merlot and Zinfandel, as well as uncommon grapes like Abouriou, Valdiguie and Muscat Vert, all farmed organically and sustainably, and she makes wine without additives and minimal intervention.