Winery Notes: Something of a unicorn [or perhaps that beast's leviathan, aquatic bête rose cousin], our latest iteration of the Old Things From-Mysterious-Faraway-Places-Rosé again weaves together Mourvèdre from Contra Costa County's Little Big Block Vineyard
[planted circa 1895] and Cinsault from Lodi's estimable Bechthold Vineyard [planted in 1886].
 There are vanishingly few rosés on God's Pink Earth produced exclusively from vines planted in the 19th century, and picked expressly for rosé. Our Hic was inspired by the more structured, age worthy, longer elevage Mourvèdre-dominant rosés of the Côte d’Azur. Less overtly fruity than our Vin Gris (which also includes these same two components at its core but is mainly Grenache), Hic Svnt Dracones presents a more dense, stony aspect counterbalanced with, appropriately enough, aromas of white stone fruits, and that most celebrated of Provençal fruits from the village of Cavaillon- the greenish-gold skinned and intoxicatingly-scented Charentais Melon. Longer aging on fine lees, and natural completion of malolactic contribute additional textural richness and sucrosité, a word in the French descriptive lexicon that, like so many such entries, has no exact analog in English, but conveys a sense of figuratively fruity sweetness, yet all the while remaining obdurately dry.