Spring Seed Wine Co 'Wanderer' Sparkling Red NV alicante-bouschet spiced pears

spiced pears

so it has none of the toasty new oak that blights many a Barbera

concentrated yields are one part of the reason

A delicious wine to be enjoyed in its youth

Spring Seed Wine Co 'Wanderer' Sparkling Red NV alicante-bouschet spiced pearsThe various varieties of red wine grapes (the breakdown of which will vary season by season) are gently picked before being taken to the winery to be crushed before undergoing open fermentation. Once through ferment, the red grapes are pressed off skins and sent to stainless steel vessels to ferment. Some of the wine is aged in oak (shiraz and Petit Verdot) , some not, and being non vintage as well, the base wine ends up being wonderfully complex.