2016 Flame - Estate Méthode Champenoise

Apple

WA - Puget Sound

$22.99 / 750 mL Bottle

~~$23.00~~ MSRP

Alcohol 8.5%

This well aged sparkling cider is made in the traditional champagne method, a long slow primary fermentation of traditional cider fruit. Matured in stainless for 4 months and racking for clarity. Then bottled for a secondary fermentation and aging on the lees (dead yeast) for 14 months before moving into the riddling racks where it sits at a 45 degree angle neck down where it is turned a quarter turn daily until the lees have settled in the neck. At that point we freeze the neck and disgorge (ejecting) the lees by opening up each bottle under pressure. Each bottle gets topped off with a very small amount of Mistelle before adding the cork and label. A labor of love doesn’t say enough about this cider, upwards of 3 years in the making if you include growing the fruit, we hope you enjoy it for its earthy tannings and complexity.

Notes

Varietals in 2016 vintage - Organic Foxwhelp, Kingston Black, Yarlington Mill, Ashmeads Kernal & Brown Snout

Maker Name

Nancy & Bear Bishop

Vineyard/Orchard Name

Alpenfire Orchards