Figure 3 is a juicy, aromatic dry sparkling red wine made in Pet Nat style - bottled during primary fermentation, naturally sparkling, and hand disgorged to remove sediment.
Figure 3
Tasting Notes | Cherries, strawberries, cranberries and raspberries
Variety | 100% Marquette ABV | 13.1%
This wine was produced using the petillant naturel method. The fruit was destemmed, gently crushed, and pressed into a stainless steel tank to ferment until it dropped to 1.1° Brix. It was then bottled under crown cap and allowed to finish fermentation over the course of one month. The wine was then naturally cold-stabilized by placing the bottles outside in the chill of Vermont’s winter, and riddled by hand in December 2022 and January 2023. It spent one month on lees before being disgorged by hand with no dosage.
The 2022 Vintage:
Cherries, strawberries, cranberries and raspberries mix and mingle with abandon! On the palate, this mysterious wine is vibrant, textured and alive; like a deep dive into a cold berry pond. Every sip is fresh, zippy and flamboyant - live it up!
If you’re looking for a unique sparkling rosé with a distinctly Vermont assemblage - this is the one for you!
Serve chilled and keep on ice!
Vineyards: McCabe’s Brook
Marquette is a Pinot Noir hybrid developed by the University of Minnesota is reliably cold hardy and disease resistant while producing outstanding quality red wines with complex notes of cherry, berry, pepper and spice.
Our McCabe’s Brook planting of Marquette was established in 2006. The vines are trained to a hi-wire cordon system on 10’x8’ spacing. A slightly western aspect and north-south row orientation allow for maximum sunlight and exposure to prevailing winds. Soils are deep, well drained, sandy loams formed on sandy deltas, beaches and terraces that are underlain by medium-textured lacustrine deposits. This vineyard is one of our sites for trials with organic and biodynamic philosophies, and we have introduced sheep into the vineyard to help manage floor vegetation and increase soil health.
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Sparkling Rosé Wine
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Crafted with minimal intervention using sustainable vineyard management practices
IAPETUS Wines
Our team farms over 15 acres of cold hardy grape vines on three vineyard sites in northern Vermont to make natural wine. Named after the ancient ocean that once covered the present day Champlain Valley, where the roots of our grapes now nestle, IAPETUS creates wine that is inexorably tied to the Vermont soil and landscape.
Using the deep historical context of the soil in which our grapes grow as a backbone, IAPETUS makes natural, minimal intervention wines. We trust our grapes to lead us to something wonderful.
We primarily grow cold-hardy hybrid grape varieties that are best suited to our climate and have natural disease resistance
No spraying of unnecessary chemicals
All grapes are hand harvested, and we minimize the use of machinery in the vineyard to reduce soil compaction
Minimal intervention in the growing process
Our vineyards are never irrigated or tilled
Native grasses and wildflowers are allowed to flourish under the vines, naturally improving soil health
We work with sheep in the vineyard several times per year - they mow the grass and provide natural fertilizer
We don’t use sulfur or chemicals to “correct” things in the wine making process, our wines are unfiltered and unfined.