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We've bundled everything you need to make Carolyn's Raspberry Rosé Cocktail into one elegant kit, ready for your next spring or summer pour.
The wine is the centerpiece: a bottle of our 2022 Brut Rosé, crisp and creamy, with just the right touch of red fruit and a soft floral lift.
Alongside it, is a bottle of Land + Local's Elderflower Mint Botanical Mixer, infused with elderflower blossoms, organic spearmint from Preston Farms, and organic Meyer lemon juice from DMS Ranch. The mixer is sweetened with wildflower honey, and is 50% less sweet than a traditional cocktail syrup. The Meyer lemon provides a level of acidity close to wine itself, so the elderflower and mint stay in the foreground and the Brut Rosé comes through beautifully. 100ml TSA Travel Flask.
A pair of gold-rimmed crystal coupes completes the set, their ribbed texture and art deco silhouette lending every pour a little glamour. Hand wash only, naturally.
On the nose, the wine opens with strawberries and cream, raspberry, marmalade, and the subtle floral lift of orange blossom and honeysuckle. The palate is dry and layered: peach purée, pie crust, and ginger, all carried by the warm toastiness that only extended lees aging can bring. Creamy, ethereal, and built for celebration.
Produced in méthode traditionnelle from our estate fruit and aged a minimum of three years on the lees, this vintage is a study in balance.
A blend of 57% estate grown Pinot Noir and 43% estate grown Chardonnay, the 2022 Brut Rosé owes its delicate blush to three days of skin contact with the Pinot Noir juice after harvest. The Chardonnay lends structure and elegance.
Land + Local is Kim LaVere's labor of love: a Sonoma County line of shrubs, and botanical mixers rooted in the seasons and soil around her. More than 85% of the herbs and fruit she works with, by weight, come from farms within fifty miles of her production kitchen, sourced through close relationships with the growers themselves.
A Los Angeles native who spent a decade in New York retail before stepping away to pursue food, Kim trained at the Natural Gourmet Institute in Manhattan and went on to stage at farm-to-table restaurants from Bordeaux to Northern Laos to Southern India, where her love of place through food, land, and local culture took root. She landed in Sonoma County in 2016 and built Land + Local from the ground up, weaving her training in Ayurveda and traditional Western herbalism into every formula. Her work is a love letter to Northern California, and we can think of no better companion to our sparkling wines.
Read more about Kim in our Meet the Maker feature here.
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