We've been holding on to this one for awhile, selfishly not wanting to let it go. A beauty of a rosé made from Frontenac Gris in the homefarm vineyards in 2021. This wine is part of an exploration into additional sparkling wines, really an examination of all the ways in which the climate is changing and pivoting and affecting how we manage the vines and the evolution of the wines from these garden vineyards in the mountains that surround the winery.
At the heart of the domaine, these vineyards are a bit enchanted, like storybook characters living on the edge of the forest surrounded by gardens and orchard.
WE LIKE THIS WINE WITH
Oysters
Shrimp cocktail
Sushi
Fresh goat cheeses
A roast picnic chicken
Pan-roasted lamb chops with rosemary
Composed salads, like chef or Cobb salads, or a wedge with bacon, tomato, and blue cheese dressing
STORING & SERVING SUGGESTIONS
Store me upright. Crown-capped bottles may leak if stored on their sides.
Serve well-chilled.
This wine ages well. Serve now, or in 5-10 years.
Sparkling Rosé Wine of Vermont
Lucky Star
VARIETY / Frontenac Gris
VINEYARD / Les Bonnes Femmes and Les Forestières Vineyards - Barnard, Vermont
CELLAR / Indigenous yeasts, no filtering or fining. No added sulfites.
ALC/VOL / 11%
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}
