Roxanne pairs with fun. Roxanne is a dry rosé wine made from 100% Virginia-grown grapes (a blend of white Vidal Blanc and red Chambourcin wines). The word Rosé means “pink” in French, and it describes all wines that are rosy shades from blush to cotton candy to geranium pink. Rosé wines have fruit and floral notes of red wines, but they’re lighter with less alcohol and tannins. Rosés can be dry or sweet—we chose to allow our wine to ferment completely, as it naturally does on its own, leaving no residual sugar.

Importantly, Roxanne is a minimal-, or low-, intervention wine, which is similar to a natural wine*. It means that the winemaker does as little as possible in order to avoid interfering with the grapes’ and yeasts’ innate character; their essence. In this case, it means no filtering, or clarification, or oak-aging, or sweetening, or excessive handling, and very, very low sulfite. We essentially just support the wine in becoming whatever it wants to be. In this case, an aromatic, light-bodied, vivacious wine.

Roxanne is the wine of summer. She bursts with aromas of honeysuckle, watermelon, and golden cherries; flavors of strawberry, pink guava, and nectarine; and a mouthfeel.