The result is notes of black pepper
these can be made from either single-vineyard
many regard this as a “super second” and if reclassified today would rank as a 2nd
They place a wooden cat statue on their best barrel each vintage
and a salty mineral bite from ancient Caranto clay soils near the Venetian Lagoon
2024 Pheasant's Tears Vardisperi Rkatsiteli Non Alcoholic The result is notes ofDried flowers, rooibos tea, crunchy berries, and a salty, ocean like finish gorgeous pink copper color, more amber wine than ros. Vardisperi is a rare pink skinned mutation of Rkatsiteli that was nearly extinct before Pheasant's Tears helped revive it. Hand harvested, three weeks skin maceration, fermented and aged in buried qvevri clay vessels some up to 200 years old. Organically farmed, no fining, no filtering, near zero sulfur. Founded by John