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The 2016 Sparkling Pinot Noir Alder Springs Vineyard was disgorged in January of 2020. It has a peachy-bronze color and aromas of bruised apples, beeswax, toasty accents and a singular note of candied peach. The palate is full and rich, offering amplitude without an over-autolytic character, and unique tropical, toasty and wooly undertones. It’s an unusual style of sparkling wine that’s appealing for its dry but fruity, energetic character.

From vineyard Website:
Even in the rostrum of remote places we gravitate towards for our sparkling wines, Alder Springs is a level abovewhere the vastness of Mendocinos northern reaches does a lilting two-step with grape agriculture. This doesnt always make farming fair or easy, but Stu is generally okay with that as the vinous rewards can be just as vast as the vineyards surrounding landscape. The 2016 Alder Sparkling Pinot has a touch of pretty color, and the fruit is subtle and building as the wine opens itself and intersects with atmosphere. There is a snap of acid from the cold nights and sandstone soils and crunchy texture from foot stomping the grapes and letting them soak for a few hours. The wines from Alder are usually our most traditionally champagne-like in acid and fruit profile, and this rendition is certainly in that vein. The vin clair was fermented in neutral oak barrels followed by 31 months en tirage.