Tasting Notes: Bartlett pear, meyer lemon, white flower
Making sparkling wine is always a fun adventure. There’s something new to discover and love about each vintage. This year’s bubbles feel concentrated and zippy while still retaining a soft and thirst-quenching crispness. The Love Sparkling is made to be an everyday sparkling wine that’s good for both the spur-of-the-moment dinners, however it still shines for any special occasions. The Chenin Blanc grapes arrived from Shell Creek Vineyard on an August morning. After a few hours on the skins, the grapes were directly pressed into stainless steel tank to naturally ferment. We added Chenin Blanc must and transferred the wine into pressurized tanks while still slightly sweet to finish fermentation. Hand-bottled. No disgorging or dosage and light sulphur at bottling.
VARIETIES: 95% Chenin Blanc | 5% Orange Muscat
VINEYARD: Shell Creek and Hartwick Vineyards
ALCOHOL: 12%
Our Love Collection showcases California’s best organically farmed and unsung grape varieties at an affordable price. All Broc Cellar wines are made using spontaneous fermentation, which means only native yeasts and bacteria that exist on the grapes are used to make wine. We don’t add anything – this includes nutrients, yeast, bacteria, enzymes, tannins or other popular fermentation agents. Sulphur is a naturally occurring element in all wine, the amount found can vary. Sulphur is never added during fermentation and aging. We add little to no S02 at bottling, depending on the wine, year and style.
