B. Loup No. 2
Lost Causes & Desperate Cases is a co-production by Deirdre Heekin x Camila Carrillo.
Rancio Sec is a dry, ancestral wine-making style hailing from the steep hills of south western Europe. This oxidative Solera of red wine, which goes back to the 2017 vintage, ages in glass demijohns, or bonbonnes, exposed to all the summer elements in our rose garden, just like in the light-kissed rancio sec tradition, then returns to the cool cellar for our snowy winters to sleep in a 50 year old Amontillado Sherry barrel. The resulting oxidative wine, not unlike Sherry, is nutty with dried fruits, and tastes of the sun.
WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH
Almonds
Olives
Spicy and salty cured meats
Potato chips
Sweet red peppers
Fried sage leaves
HOW TO STORE THIS WINE: store me upright
Oxidative Red Wine of Vermont
VARIETAL / Marquette
VINEYARD / Les Carouges Vineyard - Vergennes {Champlain Valley, Vermont}
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites. Unfortified.
ALC/VOL / 15%
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}
