A dry sparkling red wine made as an homage to Italian Lambrusco.  Bright and effervescent with foam the color of raspberry cream, this wine is a co-fermented field blend of 6 different varieties that we grow here in the two mountain vineyards at the homefarm.  The three red and three white varieties: Marquette, Frontenac Noir, St. Croix with Frontenac Blanc and Gris, La Crescent.  Dark as night, earthy, fruity and smooth, this little charmer is delicious on its own as an aperitif, but also plays beautifully at the table.

WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH
Charcuterie
Olives 
Pasta dishes (everything from Bolognese to pasta alla Norma) 
Roast turkey
Roast pork
Roast vegetables 
And I'd bet the farm on serving this with duck confit. 

HOW TO STORE THIS WINE: store me upright

Sparkling Red Wine of Vermont

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VARIETY / Marquette, Frontenac Noir, St. Croix, Frontenac Blanc, Frontenac Gris & La Crescent
VINEYARD / Les Bonnes Femmes and Les Forestières Vineyards - Barnard, Vermont
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites.
ALC/VOL / 11.5%

LES BONNES FEMMES VINEYARD
& LES FORESTIÈRES VINEYARD

Barnard, Vermont

Comprised of two mountain vineyards on volcanic soils facing each other, Les Bonnes Femmes and Les Forestières, the homefarm vineyards are a study of wines from the garden where the orchard feeds into the rose garden which blends into the vineyard which surrounds a secret garden full of vegetables and flowers, grazed by sheep, and inhabited by wild creatures from the forest

SOIL / volcanic comprised of clay, limestone, granite, schist, gneiss, quartzite, amphibolite, garnet
ELEVATION / 1615 feet
AGRICULTURE / regenerative, practicing biodynamic, forest edge ecology, rotational grazing
VINEYARD LIFE / bedstraw, wild alpine strawberry, buttercup, buckhorn plantain, goldenrod, milkweed, white campion, old field cinquefoil, red fescue, devil’s paintbrush, Joe pieweed, crabapple
MICROCLIMATE / warm, humid summers with rain. South facing slope intensifying sun from high noon to early evening. Winters snowy and cold, occasionally bracing winds.
FRUIT GROWN / Marquette, Frontenac Noir, St.Croix, La Crescent, Frontenac Gris, Frontenac Blanc
SIZE / 3.5 acres {1.4 hectares}