2024 Pheasant's Tears Vardisperi Rkatsiteli Allocated All the Riesling grapes are

All the Riesling grapes are hand-harvested

2020 was at risk for smoke taint from the California fires

fermented with native yeast in large barrels

Classic Albarino aromatics of white flowers

2024 Pheasant's Tears Vardisperi Rkatsiteli Allocated All the Riesling grapes areDried 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