Chapter 2- The Inception

It was the Summer of 2018 and our vintner John took his collegiate daughter Emma to Europe for an overdue family vacation.

Rosé was becoming the ‘hot new thing’ in the United States and each year it defied John’s expectation that this varietal’s craze would fade. On the contrary it only seemed to intensify.

Up to this point, despite my ‘gentle’ prodding, Rosé was simply not a wine John was interested in making; the brash pink hurt his eyes, the cotton candy bouquet wrinkled his nose and the sweetness did not inspire him to explore any farther than to put the glass back on the counter and change direction.

After a long Trans-Atlantic flight with the annual wine industry report for light reading material, the curiosity of Rosé’s perpetual popularity was front and center on his mind as the plane touched down in France…

Ever the scientist and coincidentally finding himself at the right time in the best place in the world for this peculiar pink wine John and Emma set off on their trip… a journey with a lifetime of memories speckled with glasses of Old-World Rosés.

These Rosés were like nothing John had expected. These wines weren’t pink but clear with a subtle hue that might hint at a sunset. Their aromas were shades of firm fruits and blooming florals. They weren’t sweet but palate-teasingly dry with minerality.

The one word that resonated from glass to glass was fresh.

This was a wine he wanted to drink. This was a wine he wanted to share.

So the adventure to our own Double Bond Rosé was born at the bottom of glass after glass [read bottle after bottle] of Provence renditions.