Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 NET Modern Shiraz that proves serious

Modern Shiraz that proves serious character doesn't need heaviness

It is joyful and fully serious all at once

Colorado's first legal distillery since Prohibition

Low-intervention

It comes from a sliver of Chardonnay planted up on the plateau above Premeaux-Prissey

Love & Terroir Sta. Rita Hills Syrah Melville Vineyard 2022 NET Modern Shiraz that proves seriousThis is Syrah grown in a place cold enough that it probably shouldn't work, and that is exactly why it does. Love & Terroir sources from a small sandy parcel on the Melville estate in the Sta. Rita Hills, where the nutrient starved soil keeps the vines struggling and the fruit intense. Fermented with 80% whole clusters and left on skins and stems for 35 days, it comes out with the peppery, savory, borderline feral character that cool climate Syrah