red bubbles
jan 2021
If you haven’t seen red bubbles before (don't worry, you're not alone), this was a logical next step for pétproject.
2020 was my fourth vintage creating pet-nats, so I was excited to try a few new things, one being, sparkling red wine. I was inspired by the many Lambruscos I’ve enjoyed over the years and wanted to make something in that spirit. Lambrusco is often made in the same style as prosecco, using the charmat method, which takes a finished wine through a second fermentation in-tank.
For our new sparkling Syrah, we harvested the grapes early and used whole cluster carbonic maceration for 10 days prior to pressing. With minimal tannin from skin contact, you get that super juicy, fruit profile.
After pressing, the fermenting wine continued its fermentation in stainless steel. Rather than bottling this wine near the end of fermentation and disgorging after a few months, we placed the wine in a pressure tank to finish its primary fermentation. This allowed the wine to self-carbonate. After a settling period we bottled the wine unfined and unfiltered from this same tank using a counter pressure bottler with no additives or SO2 during any stage of the winemaking process. The result is a light, nuanced, fruit-forward sparkling red.
Varietal: Syrah
Vintage: 2020
Vineyard: Conley Vineyard
AVA: Columbia Valley
Farming Practices: Certified Organic
Alcohol: 10%
Yeast: Indigenous
Sulfur: 0
Filter: 0
Fining: 0
Aromatics: funk, raspberry coulis
Palate: cranberry, pomegranate, rye
Format: 750mL
Cases Produced: 55
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