Buckel Family Rosé 2024 Passimento and modern elegance

and modern elegance

mineral character that sets them apart from the basalt-dominant profiles of the northern slope

Five to eight years from now it will be a different

all planted between 1985 and 2000 on limestone and clay soils at the high elevations that define Saint-Aubin's character

carefully sorted

Buckel Family Rosé 2024 Passimento and modern eleganceThe Land This rose comes from a single vineyard in Palisade, in Colorado's Grand Valley AVA, a high desert river valley along the Colorado River at roughly 4,700 feet, considerably lower and warmer than Buckel's own high elevation West Elks fruit. The valley's wide diurnal swings, up to 30 degrees between day and night, keep acidity intact even as the desert sun pushes ripeness. Soils here range from alluvial ground along the river to stony, loamy