Arlette is a special cuvee that we make in even smaller amounts that our usual case production. This wine is the sister to our Ci Confonde Rosé. Without the rosé. The fruit is Frontenac Gris from our Vergennes vineyard and is picked earlier in the season, so it presses as a white wine with a golden shimmer.
Recently disgorged, this is a frothy and creamy sparkling wine, with plenty of electricity, an understudy to Champagne. Its bright and maybe a little insouciant, but has the ability to age for the long haul.
WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH anything we'd eat with Champagne:
oysters
caviar
smoked fish
lemon roast chicken
salmon roasted with lemon and capers
a fried chicken sandwich
HOW TO STORE THIS WINE: store me upright
Sparkling White Wine of Vermont
Arlette
VARIETY / Frontenac Gris
VINEYARD / Les Carouges Vineyard - Vergennes {Champlain Valley, Vermont}
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites.
ALC/VOL / 11.5%
LES CAROUGES VINEYARD
Vergennes, Vermont
This vineyard on clay, limestone, and shale, is defined by wide-open space full of the epic romance of a mythic novel, grand gestures, battles of bravery, lost and found love, stories of courage and heart, and is protected by Les Carouges, the red-winged blackbirds who make nests in the vines for the season.
SOIL / clay, limestone and shale
ELEVATION / 252 feet. Valley floor
AGRICULTURE / regenerative, practicing biodynamic, forest edge ecology, rotational grazing
VINEYARD LIFE / clover, wild carrot, dandelion, mugwort, burdock, thistle, elderflower, purple vetch, chicory, nettle, climbing nightshade, foxtail
MICROCLIMATE / intensely hot and humid summers, western facing with sun all day long. Wind in the morning and still evenings. Cold, damp winters with windchills. Some snow.
FRUIT GROWN / Marquette, La Crescent, Front Gris, Brianna
SIZE / 4 acres {1.6 hectares}
