To cite a famous Beatles song, this wine is “Strawberry Fields Forever.” To say there is lots of red juice would be an understatement. This is a dark red colored, fruit-forward, low-medium acidity rose’ with well-integrated tannins.
I hope this product is a crowdpleaser because we found it to be just that. Think hot summer Armenian afternoon on the deck of your cabin after wine tasting all day. Sign me up, please, and bring a cheese and charcuterie plate.
ArmAs Winery produced this Rose’ from the Karmrahyut variety, a rare native red-fleshed grape sourced from the Aragatsotn region of Armenia. According to the tech notes, the winemaking team used free run juice fermented in stainless, and four months sur lie.
You can read winegrower Victoria’s Wine Characters interview here. Learn why this wine is so special to her and the brand.
Note: this wine was reviewed by a two-person panel, including myself and Ken Collura – Somm at Large – and former Wine Direct/Somm at Bern’s Steak House in Tampa, the largest wine list in the U.S., with over 500,000 bottles, and Andina in Portland.