It has a fresh and vibrant aroma. It has the scent of strawberry, watermelon, rose, etc. It has fresher acidity than the 2018 vintage and is lighter to drink.
This is a food-friendly wine that goes well with any dish, including fresh oysters and seafood. Of course, we also recommend drinking it as is. This is the first playful Trousseau Gris from the Pax brand. The 2019 vintage was partially carbonic macerated, resulting in a wilder aroma and brighter pink color than the 2018 vintage. A small amount of sulfite was added at bottling. Pax is a fresh family-run winery that started in 2000. The owners, Pax and Pam Marley, each dreamed of becoming a master sommelier. They studied hard every day, met at a study group with like-minded friends, and fell in love. Pax grew up in a family that had nothing to do with wine, and majored in art history at university. While working part-time at a restaurant and thinking about his future, he eventually became deeply interested in the history of the drink known as "wine." During a trip to France to study wine, the two were completely fascinated by the relationship between grapes, people and soil, and the culture of "wine" that is deeply rooted in Europe. In 1997, the two decided to move to California and make a living in the wine industry. After that, Pax was selected as a wine buyer for Dean & DeLuca, and based on his knowledge of European wine, he was inspired by another genre of drink, California wine. Among them, the most shocking for Pax was "Syrah". He began to realize that if California's Pauillac is Oakville and Pomerol is Carneros' Merlot, there is no California Syrah that can compare to Northern Rhone. Then, in 2000, he started Pax Wine Cellars with the aim of making Syrah from the vineyards that he felt had a fateful encounter with. What these vineyards have in common is that they are all in the cool environment of Sonoma County and Mendocino, and they can produce full-bodied, delicately expressive wines. The Pax brand, which took on a niche angle, gained momentum, and Pax and Pam, along with investors, launched the Wind Gap brand in 2006. While Pax was a brand specializing in Syrah and Rhone varieties, Wind Gap was a hip brand full of playfulness, releasing not only Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, but also unfamiliar grape varieties such as Trousseau Gris and Valdiguier. However, due to disagreements with investors, in 2018, he decided to withdraw from the Wind Gap brand and focus on his own Pax brand. Currently, Pax mainly produces Syrah, which has a texture and freshness reminiscent of the Northern Rhone, as well as rare varieties such as Trousseau Gris and Valdiguier, which were handled during the Wind Gap era. The style is unmistakably "New California", and no pesticides or substances that do not exist in nature are put into the fields, and the wine is made naturally by fermenting it naturally with indigenous yeast and minimizing the addition of sulfites.