Red Wine of Vermont
Black Pearl {coming soon}
VARIETY / Marquette
VINEYARD / Les Carouges Vineyard - Vergennes {Champlain Valley, Vermont}
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites.
ALC/VOL / 12%
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}