2023 Brut Rosé Bubbles

$55.00

Pink celebration
Saffron salt ebullience
Licking lips

Our 2023 Brut Rose is 91% Pinot Noir from Palmer Creek Vineyard fermented in stainless steel and 9% barrel fermented Chardonnay from Eola Springs Vineyard – both located in the Eola Amity Hills AVA.

Harvest dates: September 7th & 19th, 2023
Tirage bottling: April 9th, 2024
Disgorgement: March 4th, 2026
Dosage: 8 g/L Brut

This version is creamy and dreamy with notes of melon and saffron, orange blossom and shortbread. On the palate find flavors of macadamia, raspberry creamsicle and sweet tarts. And the bubbles, they are fresh and festive, a ray of sparkle to every glass.

I've wanted to make sparkling wine ever since as an aspiring winemaker in New Zealand, I received a test tube in a battered box covered in stamps from France (!), containing a delicate slant of agar and a miniscule smear of yeast. My task? To cultivate a culture of active, energetic cells that would create the bubbles for an entire vintage of a client’s traditional method sparkling wines.

I was excited and slightly terrified and set to work growing and propagating the yeasty beauties. With luck, it worked, cells thrived and multiplied, and before long we combined them with base wine, bottled the mixture, and waited.

The result? Fermentation and bubbles, transforming the wine into something alive, effervescent, and full of delight. It was a revelation.