03 Brut has a pretty copper color and renders elegant bubbles in the glass. Notes of wild
strawberries, orange blossoms, honey, brioche, and golden apples entice the nose. A creamy,
concentrated mouth feel is balanced out by a beam of bright acidity. The 2003 has a juicier, more
succulent demeanor than its predecessors. Even so, a long, complex finish reminds you that this is a
wine of substance to pair with a main course. Our finest Brut yet!
With a beautiful pale pink color in the glass and a wonderfully fine bead, the wine has a spicy, blossom-laden complexity on the nose. Honey, suggestions of ginger, vanilla, and cr?me brul?e overlay subtler notes of ripe cranberries and strawberries. Enjoy our Brut Ros? to the fullest: pair it with a main course. Dishes like paillards of chicken in chanterelle cream come to mind, or perhaps pair it with something as exotic as lobster and rose-petal agnolotti. Soon you'll see why Soter bubblies have won such a cult following, and why today they stand among the elite of American sparkling wines.
Magnums available Spring 2008- call to preorder- very limited
Detailed Info, Previous Vintage Notes, Reviews:
From the winery:
Soter Vineyards ros? begins life in our Beacon Hill Estate vineyard, where it is farmed with the same meticulous attention to detail and low yields as all of our wines. Select lots of Pinot Noir are given a gentle whole-cluster pressing and then quickly taken off of the skins, and soon they are fermented in neutral oak and stainless steel barrels. After approximately 4 months of aging, the wine has excellent clarity and purity, and is ready for bottling with a slight addition of spicy, fruity red Pinot Noir to add color and even more flavor dimension. Many ros?s in the marketplace are created simply as a byproduct of red wine production, bled from fermentation tanks in often-dilute vintages. Not so at Soter Vineyards, where we specifically set out to produce ros? from whole clusters, crafting it with care, simply because we love it.
Seize the day; seize the ros?.
Will Soter ros? age? It will likely hold up 3 or so years in the bottle, but we firmly believe that our ros? is best enjoyed in its effusive and fruity youth, within a year from its harvest. We like to say that our ros?'s purpose in life is generally served by the time it sees its first Thanksgiving.
