LIOCO Indica Rosé 2017 | Fresh, bright, inviting… Excellent | Michelin Star Favorite

The LIOCO Indica Rosé 2017, with key lime, rhubarb, white raspberry flavors, and dazzling watermelon, sweet lemon, ginger blossom aromas.  Hence, demonstrating everything that has made LIOCO a favorite and a darling among America’s top sommeliers. Sourcing fruit with legitimate pedigree.  While using only dry-farmed, extremely low-yielding vines dating back to the 1950s. Older vines make better wines, almost without exception. Together, they deliciously characterize Mendocino terroir.

Lioco | Top 100 Winery

So, just fifteen years after bootstrapping his way into high-end winemaking, LIOCO earned a coveted spot among Wine & Spirits magazine’s Top 100 Wineries in the world in 2017. While their story is repeated by a stunning roster of restaurants.  Starting with Michelin 3-star temple The French Laundry.  In addition their 3-star Healdsburg neighbor SingleThread.  Plus The Little Nell in Aspen among them—that feature their wines.

More Great Whites & Rosés

The LIOCO Indica Rosé 2017, originates from a mid-century planting of dry-farmed, head pruned Carignan in the township of Talmage. While a severe diurnal shift supports gradual and often late ripening. The soil is red clay strewn with fist-sized rocks. The combination of vine age, extended growing season, and tougher soil conspire to produce a Rosé with great freshness and complexity.

An intentional Rosé

LIOCO Indica Rosé 2017  is an “intentional Rosé.  Hence, meaning all the fruit goes directly-into-the-press and 100% of the juice rendered into bone-dry Rose. Many pink wines are engineered by a process that involves bleeding some juice from overweight red grapes. The pleasant hue of Indica verifies a qualitative approach with an “eye of the partridge” color that is closer to orange than pin

Co-founder Matt Licklider

So, now run by co-founder Matt Licklider and his wife Sara.  While LIOCO’s reputation as a producer of unique California wines has, without a doubt, eclipsed its charming founding story. Yet, this evolution is best embodied by LIOCO’s new tasting room.  Located on the town square in Sonoma County’s new gourmet Mecca of Healdsburg.  Where just steps away, Michelin 2-star darling SingleThread offers a half-dozen LIOCO wines.