Amista Sparkling Grenache
Our Sparkling Grenache is always one of my favorite wines and this vintage is no exception. The aromas are of red fruit and raspberry with nice lemon zest and salted plum notes. Very nice fruit on the palate with bright red berry notes, orange rind, lemon zest, and very balanced acidity on the finish. Just delicious.
Our sparkling wines are hand harvested from our estate vineyards in Healdsburg, California. Winemaker Ashley puts the sparkle in every bottle using the Méthode Champenoise, the process used to make fine French Champagne.
Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County
Estate Grown, Morningsong Vineyards
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Wine Specs
Vintage
Non Vintage
Varietal
Grenache
Appellation
Dry Creek Valley
Vineyard Designation
Morningsong Vineyards
Harvest Date
August 23, 2022
Acid
9.42 g/L
pH
2.95
Aging
4 months in stainless steel plus 10 months in bottle
Bottling Date
February 13, 2024
Residual Sugar
4 g/L
Alcohol %
12.5
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Our Sparkling Grenache is always one of my favorite wines and this vintage is no exception. The aromas are of red fruit and raspberry with nice lemon zest and salted plum notes. Very nice fruit on the palate with bright red berry notes, orange rind, lemon zest, and very balanced acidity on the finish. Just delicious.
Vineyard Notes
2022 was another quite warm vintage. We had extremely low rainfall over the winter and spring, which caused for a very small crop. Some frost and hail hit us in April, which further reduced the crop. A very warm summer led to an early harvest as well. However, because of the incredibly low yield, flavors are heightened and absolutely delicious from this vintage.
Production Notes
Grenache for sparkling is picked quite early and by hand. The grapes are whole cluster pressed after spending about 2.5 hours on skins to pick up a bit of color. The fermentation is very cold to keep all of the aromatics, so around 58 degrees. After 3 weeks, the fermented juice is racked off any hard settled lees and goes to a tank for resting until being tirage bottled about 4 months later! The wine is then bottled with a little bit of yeast and a little bit of sugar and goes through a secondary fermentation in bottle. This is called Methode Champenoise, or the traditional method of making Champagne. When the wine is done fermenting and aging, the sediment is removed from the bottles through the process of disgorging, the bottles are topped up and a small dosage is added and the corks are put in!
Winemaker Notes
Our Grenache comes from a block on our estate, Morningsong Vineyards, that was planted in 2011. We grafted one acre that year from Syrah to Grenache and this block is consistently the source of one of our favorite sparkling wines, the Sparkling Grenache.
Production
313 cases