Carbonic vs Traditional
Taste two wines fermented in the carbonic maceration method and two wines fermented in the traditional method.
Division Gamay Nouveau
Grapes : Gamay
Place : Columbia Valley
Process : Fermented by carbonic maceration in stainless steel and then bottled unfined and unfiltered. This is meant to be fun, refreshing, and certainly served chilled, with juicy bright red and purple fruit, hardly any tannin, and goes down, entirely too easily
Family : Kate Norris and Tom Monroe
Price : 29 btl | 13 gls
Tanganelli ‘Rude’ Sangiovese
Grapes : Sangiovese
Place : Tuscany - Italy
Process : ‘Rude’ was developed in conversation with his good friend and fellow winemaker Arnaldo Rossi. This is Arnaldo’s notion of fermenting Sangiovese in alternating layers of whole-cluster and destemmed fruit, a Tuscan riff on carbonic methods like a cake or ‘torta.’ 5 day maceration and fermentation in oak, Aged in steel and bottled without added sulfite, Marco decided to call the wine ‘Rude’ because this wine is more of a wild character!
Family : Marco Tanganelli
Price : 29 btl | 13 gls
Jean-Paul Brun L’ancien Beaujolais
Grapes : Gamay
Place : Beaujolais - France
Process : L'Ancien comes from Jean Paul Brun's home village of Charnay in the southern Beaujolais. The vines range in age from 40 to 60 years old and are planted on slopes sporting the area's signature sandy clay-limestone soils, featuring the particular local "dorée" or "golden" limestone that is laden with iron. These older vines have always been farmed organically and harvested by hand and yield small, thick-skinned Gamay berries. As for all Terres Dorées reds, the vinification is traditional Burgundian rather than the normal carbonic maceration in Beaujolais.
Family : Jean-Paul Brun
Price : 25 btl | 12 gls
Montemlino Malpasso Rosso
Grapes : Sangiovese
Place : Umbria - Italy
Process : Liters of 100% Sangiovese. Wild yeast fermentation. Aged in cement tanks for a year before bottling. Minimal added sulfur and no filtering or fining. Takes crowd pleasing to arena-level status.
Family : Margret Etten & Guido Cantarelli
Price : 25 btl | 12 gls