Alonso & Pedrajo Suane Rosado Reserva 2020 SP051726 Beuer and their two Chignin-Bergeron cuvées

and their two Chignin-Bergeron cuvées (Bergeron is Savoie's name for Roussanne) trade off as a study in terroir

These have become "baby unicorns

gravitas and tonicity expressed in Assemblage 5 is IWA’s unprecedented – somewhat avant-garde – proposition

working biodynamically since the early 2000s in the Aube

Finish: Short

Alonso & Pedrajo Suane Rosado Reserva 2020 SP051726 Beuer and their two Chignin-Bergeron cuvéesThis is not a poolside rose. Alonso & Pedrajo, a young Rioja Alta project farming high altitude vines at the region's cool western edge, make their Suane rosado the old fashioned, serious way, with white and red grapes given skin contact and then aged in French oak. The result is pale salmon in the glass but structured and savory on the palate, with real texture and a mineral spine. It's a rose built for the dinner table rather than the aperitif hour.