Often referred to as the Food of Angels, the Angelicall Stone was the goal above all goals for the alchemist. It could not be seen, felt, or weighed; only tasted. We take this name and the image of the alchemist’s laboratory to represent our most experimental wine.
Typically, rosé is made in one of two ways: either it is pressed directly like a white wine or bled from a fermenter destined for red wine during the first twenty-four hours. At an average of seven days on the skins, ours is not rosé, in a conventional sense, but neither is it a red wine. We are pulling the wine as far as we can through fermentation, stopping on the verge of tannic extraction. We wait until the aromatics of each fermentation reach a peak of expression, filling the room with perfume, before siphoning the juice from the fermenters; filling the barrels and amphorae in which the wine will finish its fermentation and rest, sur lie, for one year.
The 2022 Antica Terra rosé Angelicall, is, as with all of our rosés, the clearest sightline through to the overarching character of the vintage. Here we see the season in perfect focus with its aerial freshness, delicate transparency and mica-like layering. Having lived its life in two terracotta amphorae, the 2022 Angelicall brings a weighted, grounded, textural foundation to the vintage’s telltale rosewater, Montmorency cherry and pink peppercorn characteristics.