Mission Esencia Lodi Rose

This super pale red wine smells exactly like strawberry jam in-process: warm sweet berries, lithe floral notes, a couple of stems that didn’t get plucked. Winemaker Chris Brockway sources his grapes from a 60-year-old vineyard in California’s Lodi region. “I like how this grape has the longest history out of any grape planted for wine in California,” says Brockway. Aside from this dry version, since 2016, Brockway has made two vintages of Angelica, too, an old-school sweet, fortified-style of wine made from mission that was popularized in California in the late 19th century.