Cybele
Cybele is a rare creature coming from our West Addison Vineyard, La Selva. We only make it when harvest allows. We had vintages in 2011, 2015, 2016, and the last vintage was in 2017.
This edition is a blending of vintages 2021 and 2022 and has been resting on lees for 2 years. The bubble is downright creamy, and lemony with a chalky orange twist and a briny finish. There are the threads of brioche developing that you find in aged Champagne.
The base wine is pulled from our Vinu Jancu, so the vin clair is aged in our anforma made from Lake Champlain basin clay by a ceramist in Montreal. Grown in clay and limestone, shale and red sandstone, and raised in the same clay.
Celebratory and lipsmacking, this wine is perfect for the holidays, or if you are like us, any old day deserves a toast.
WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH smoked and cured meats, smoked fish, fresh cheeses, hummus, salty potato chips, caviar, fettucine with garlicky lemon shrimp sauce or risotto Milanese.
HOW TO STORE THIS WINE: store me upright
Sparkling White Wine of Vermont
VARIETAL / La Crescent
VINEYARD / La Selva Vineyard - West Addison {Champlain Valley, Vermont}
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites.
ALC/VOL / 12.5%
West Addison, Vermont
LA SELVA VINEYARD
La Selva means forest or jungle, and this vineyard, on clay, limestone, and shale, is described by the wild flora and fauna that create a certain magic in the vines.
SOIL / clay, limestone, shale, red sandstone
ELEVATION / 141 feet. Valley floor. Lake coast.
AGRICULTURE / regenerative, practicing biodynamic, forest edge ecology, rotational grazing
VINEYARD LIFE / purple aster, daisy fleabane, wild mint, golden rod, honeysuckle, queen anne's lace, and wild rose
MICROCLIMATE / hot, humid summers with temperatures moderated by Lake Champlain only a 1000 feet from the vineyard. Zero slope but generally good drainage keep the vineyard from too much humidity. Cold, partly cloudy winters with only a little snow.
FRUIT GROWN / Frontenac Noir and La Crescent {experimental plantings of Isabella, Leon Milllot, and L’Acadie Blanc}
SIZE / 3 acres {1.2 hectares}
