2023 Luma Rose
100% Petit Verdot
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Wine Specs
Vintage
2023
Appellation
Frederick County
Alcohol %
12
Wine Profile
Vineyard Notes
2023 was a really great growing season, in fact we almost got too much of a good thing. We had a little bit of rain here and there in the early summer followed by a long, hot dry spell during the middle of the season. The lack of rain meant smaller grapes, and in turn a much higher skin to juice ratio. This lead to darker and more concentrated reds. The wine that we’ve tasted out of the of the 2023 vintage has been fantastic. The dry weather, though, did push our soil’s lack of water holding capacity to its limits. Some of our vines did begin showing small signs of drought stress. To combat this in the future, we’ve started adding compost next to our vines to increase the water holding capacity just enough to keep our vines healthy, but still working hard.
Winemaker Notes
This is our second-ever sparkling wine. It was made in the traditional method (méthode champenoise) whereby the fermented still wine is put into a bottle with a triage – additional yeast and sugars – to start a second fermentation. The wines are usually capped with a crown cap (like a beer bottle) and then are allowed to sit for a period of time in the bottle with their yeast and sugars to ferment and make bubbles. It is the sealed bottle and the second fermentation that make the bubbles because the resulting CO2 from fermentation cannot blow off because the bottle is sealed. The additional yeast will die off once the fermentation is complete and will stay in the bottle for a period of time.