Ultramarine, Sonoma Coast Blanc de Noirs Heintz Vineyard, 2018
Ultramarine is, by many accounts, California's first cult sparkling wine, and Michael Cruse made his name with single-vineyard, single-vintage, single-grape bottlings produced in tiny quantities. This is the Blanc de Noirs from the Heintz Vineyard on the Sonoma Coast, a Pinot Noir pressed to white and made in the grower-Champagne mold: blocked malolactic, aging in oak, minimal sulfur, and little or no dosage. The 2018 is bone-dry, savory and concentrated, with the kind of bready, mineral complexity that comes from real lees time. It is a fixed, finite quantity and notoriously hard to find. Serve it in a wine glass and let it open up.
Ultramarine, Sonoma Coast Blanc de Noirs Heintz Vineyard, 2018
Ultramarine is, by many accounts, California's first cult sparkling wine, and Michael Cruse made his name with single-vineyard, single-vintage, single-grape bottlings produced in tiny quantities. This is the Blanc de Noirs from the Heintz Vineyard on the Sonoma Coast, a Pinot Noir pressed to white and made in the grower-Champagne mold: blocked malolactic, aging in oak, minimal sulfur, and little or no dosage. The 2018 is bone-dry, savory and concentrated, with the kind of bready, mineral complexity that comes from real lees time. It is a fixed, finite quantity and notoriously hard to find. Serve it in a wine glass and let it open up.
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Ultramarine is, by many accounts, California's first cult sparkling wine, and Michael Cruse made his name with single-vineyard, single-vintage, single-grape bottlings produced in tiny quantities. This is the Blanc de Noirs from the Heintz Vineyard on the Sonoma Coast, a Pinot Noir pressed to white and made in the grower-Champagne mold: blocked malolactic, aging in oak, minimal sulfur, and little or no dosage. The 2018 is bone-dry, savory and concentrated, with the kind of bready, mineral complexity that comes from real lees time. It is a fixed, finite quantity and notoriously hard to find. Serve it in a wine glass and let it open up.
