Description
Desire Lines Wine Co. was founded in 2018 by Cody and Emily Rasmussen, Iowa natives and high school sweethearts who moved to Sonoma County in 2011. Cody’s “day job” is Associate Winemaker at Bedrock Wine Co, while Emily works as a marketing, public relations, and communications consultant for several wineries in Napa and Sonoma. It was only natural that the duo would decide to combine their skillsets to launch their own wine label. “Desire lines are unofficial routes, formed over time as the people traversing a space reject the designated paths in favor of a path all their own.”
No.13 in their Experimental Series, the Swan Song bottling is 100% Chenin Blanc from the Cat Canyon Vineyard in Santa Barbara County. The grapes were pressed, and the juice was then fermented in barrel (30% new oak). It was left in barrel for 18 months, untopped and unsulfured, before being sulfured to bring the wine back to life from the brink of complete oxidation. This practice tends to yield especially long-lived white wines and adds texture to the mid-palate.
Inviting green orchard fruit aromas. The palate is elegant with supple flavors of Bartlett pear, Golden Delicious apple and lemon curd. Fleshy and delicious. With beautifully integrated oak, artfully balanced with a graceful acidity and distinctive salinity thought the finish. 150 cases produced.
