Flintstones Vitamins • Strawberry Marmalade • Fresh
Best enjoyed at 39° - 46°F
Suggested drink window: drink now – 2027 – 2032
This is our inaugural vintage of the Brut Rosé! We are very excited to have this wine in our lineup as we wanted to produce a sparkling wine that is fresh, zesty, fun, easy to drink, and pink! Made of a blend of pinot noir, pinot meunier, and chardonnay, the individual components were fermented and aged for 10 months in neutral French oak barrels before being put en tirage for one year. The length of tirage has a dramatic effect on the wine’s body, texture, and aroma and flavor profile, where more advanced age in bottle will further the natural process of yeast autolysis, which contributes to traditional Champagne’s yeasty, bready character. We wanted to keep this wine fresh and bright, so the younger tirage age was critical.
Winemaking
• 64% Chardonnay, 18% Pinot Noir, 18% Pinot Meunier
• Vineyard locations: East side of Seneca Lake
• Harvested from September 5th - 12th
• Soil: Valois, Honeoye, and Lansing gravelly silt loam
• Tirage aged for 1 year
• Vegan
• Certified New York Sustainable Winegrowing
• Brix: 15.5° - 18.5° │ pH: 3.27 │ TA: 9.1 g/L │ MA: 3.81 g/L │ RS: 0.06 │ ABV: 11.3
• Tirage bottled: July 2024 │ Hand riddled and disgorged: First batch July 25, 2025
• Cases Produced: 250
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2023 Vintage Notes
As the harvest season approached, and all things pointed to 2023 being a lovely year. In the vineyards, our team worked tirelessly to ensure the cellar got to play with the best grapes possible come harvest time. Summer of 2023 was drastically different from the several previous seasons with a decent amount of rainfall, hot and humid days, but unusually cool nighttime temperatures. This means we were able to maintain a strict disease management protocol with timely shoot thinning and positioning, aggressive leaf thinning, and our hybrid organic/conventional spray program.
Many have asked about the frost event in late May and how we fared. In the days following the event, we were very nervous as we saw many small shoots go from green to black. After a few weeks, the vines started to push their secondary shoots and subsequent clusters, and we started to see life back in the hard-hit blocks. We feel very fortunate as we saw a fairly normal season as far as yields went, but we know some of our neighbors did not fare as well. These moments help reinforce the strength of the agricultural community and how we as consumers and neighbors can all help one another during challenging times by buying local, supporting small businesses, and always keeping a positive attitude!
