This méthode champenoise sparkler, grown on marine sedimentary soils, offers a fine mousse filled with flavors of ripe pear, green apple, and almond.
This wine has both a lightness and a richness on the palate, beginning with fresh strawberry, bing cherry, and zesty orange followed by creamy straw and hazelnut note with a chalky minerality on the finish.
In homage to our honeybees, we present our Queen Bee Sparkling Chardonnay. The Queen Bee is made using the traditional method of in-bottle fermentation. After harvest, the base wine is dry fermented. The real magic begins with the secondary fermentation when a mixture of yeast and estate honey are added back into the wine. Our Queen Bee is then laid to rest as the CO2 forms, which creates the delicious bubbles you are about to experience. The vivid texture and aromatics in this wine are derived from this unique in-bottle fermentation.
Butter cookie aromas and dry summer grasses accentuate fruitier and floral aromas of red apple skins, apricots, nectarines, honeysuckle and orange blossom. Mirrored flavors on the pallet are framed by drying effervescence and lingering acidity
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