NV Charmat

The NV Charmat sparkling wine was a project conceived back at the beginning of harvest in September 2016. We wanted to make a sparkling wine experimenting with extended aging in bulk, rather than bottle, and the effect that multiple vintage blending would have on the sparkling wine library base. Small volumes of sparkling wine base were made in appropriate vintages from 2016-2022, aged separately in neutral French oak, being topped and tasted very sparingly. In Spring of 2023,we racked and blended each vintage together to bottle a portion using traditional method, and isolated a portion to be done with the Charmat method. The balance of the the sparkling library base was returned to neutral French oak barrels for new Spring blending material every year going forward.