SCHRAMSBERG MIRABELLE BRUT NV
SCHRAMSBERG MIRABELLE BRUT NV
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93 pts Wine Enthusiast
This wine is rich and vibrant, with aromas of Bosc pear, acacia honey and apple blossom on the nose. The flavors of the palate are baked apple, peach, orange marmalade and cinnamon, with good acidity in the midpalate. It offers a medium mousse, with honeyed apple and mineral on the finish. Pair with friends on a Sunday morning. (TP)
91 pts Wine Spectator
Plush and generous, with refined pear and cherry flavors accented with yeast roll and hazelnut as this glides on the silky finish. — Tim Fish, 2023
Varietals: 66% Chardonnay, 34% Pinot Noir
County Composition: 55% Sonoma, 26% Napa 17% Mendocino, 2% Marin
Vintage Blend: 95% 2022, 5% aged reserve lots
Tirage: Two years of aging en tirage
Alcohol: 12.8%
Mirabelle is Schramsberg’s multi-vintage brut sparkling wine. Twenty years into building an outstanding range of vintage-dated sparkling wines, the Davies family set out to master the non-vintage or “multi-vintage” traditional method technique.
Unlike our vintage bottlings, Mirabelle gains unique richness from blending additions of aged base wines, stored in barrels and tanks at the winery from prior vintages. These older lots add significant palate richness and aromatic complexity. Starting in 2022, the Mirabelle packaging started to designate the bottling number to give additional specificity to each bottling of Mirabelle, and to highlight the vintage which is primarily in the blend.
VINEYARDS The grapes for Mirabelle are grown in the cool-climate pockets of California’s North Coast, including the NapaCarneros, Sonoma Coast, Anderson Valley, and Marin County.
WINEMAKING The fruit is hand-picked in the early morning hours at optimal maturity. Individual lot fermentations allow the winemakers to carefully select the components that make up the finished blend. After bottle fermentation and two years of aging en tirage, subsequent trials determine the ideal dosage to finish this brut style.