| Producer | Ampelos Cellars |
| Country | United States |
| Region | California |
| Varietal | Syrah, Grenache |
| Sku | 43000 |
| Size | 750ml |
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If you are reading this... Take me home! full of fun and life, pops of delicious berry and a tickle of bright acid and soft tannins; you have just found the ultimate brunch date, picnic mate and light hearted life of the party! This breezy and easy gal will go anywhere you want to take her (and she loves to be served chilled).
Wine Making Style:
we used the pressings of freshly picked syrah and grenache (from our rose program), dumped them into a fermenter and rehydrated them.
we also used the pressings from the syrah and grenache fermented for red wine and rehydrated that as well
right away the batches started refermentation. we performed two daily punch downs – as much as we could…
after 10-14 days we pressed the batches (again) and the piquette was racked to stainless tanks for settling
then racked again to stainless steel tanks and one neutral oak barrel
we experimented with another fermentation to create the sparkling effect. after three tries we finally got it figured out!
the piquette was blended and a pet-nat light fermentation was initiated through a liqueur de tirage addition: this is a small addition of yeast and sugar – just enough to start a small fermentation in the bottles to create the sparkling effect. then hand filled into champagne glass and crown capped.
after three weeks we checked the bottles and it had the desired bubbles
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