Waits-Mast Family Cellars Rose of Pinot Noir 2021
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This Rosé of Pinot Noir shows a beautiful color of salmon and coral as you hold it up to the light. Swirl it in your glass and you'll enjoy a pretty, floral scent with concentrated aromas of pink grapefruit, cranberry, and alpine cherry, layered with sweet tarragon. Hints of salty sea breeze and tangerine notes hover in the background, waiting for you to take notice. Lightweight on the palate, the fresh acidity balances flavors of tart strawberry-rhubarb preserves and salty-sweet shortbread. Bright, precise, and fruit-forward with a lengthy finish.
Pair with lighter fare like fresh spring rolls and mint, hamachi crudo or a summer greens salad with lime-marinated grilled shrimp.
Waits-Mast Family Cellars was founded by Brian Mast and Jennifer Waits in 2005. Before they started making wines they were geeky & passionate wine consumers. Many weekend getaways were spent exploring wineries across California and overseas in France, Switzerland and New Zealand.
By 2000, they started attending the Anderson Valley Pinot Noir Festival and exploring the winemaking scene by sitting in on the event’s technical conference. The Pinot Noir immersion that weekend, along with the warm and welcoming wine community of Anderson Valley, prompted them to make the shift from wine geeks to wine producers.
Their first commercial wine, a 2007 Pinot Noir from Wentzel Vineyard in Anderson Valley, was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Wines issue. The wines are featured on wine lists of some of the top restaurants in the country and have been well-received by the press, with inclusions in the San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Wines of 2014, Wine & Spirits "Year's Best Pinot Noir", and Wine Enthusiast’s Top 100 Cellar Selections among others. The wines are crafted in San Francisco with the expertise of our winemaker Shalini Sekhar, who was included in the San Francisco Chronicle's 2019 Winemakers to Watch.
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