Ruth Lewandowski 2019 Tasteful in Nature Sparkling Wine

A truly unique sparkling wine, the winemaker describes it best: "Our only fizzy cuvée (because sparkling is HARD), Tasteful in Nature is 100% Muscat, from Lost Hills Vineyard in the Yorkville Highlands AVA in Mendo, fermented fully on its skins. Sure, the lull was outrageously long, but dammit this wine is outrageously worth the wait. Most people really want to call it a ‘pet-nat’ but this one is actually ‘methode traditionnelle.’

The 2019 vintage was skin fermented, pressed and then aged for a year in neutral vessel at which point we added fermenting juice from the 2020 vintage and sent it to bottle to referment. After two years in bottle, we disgorged the goods in August of 2022, and we’re now preparing to send it off into the world for a little end of 2022 / beginning of 2023 sparkle. This is ALLLLL muscat, babyyyy. Effusive orange flower and curry spices on the nose, very fine very persistent bubbles, all with an added textural dimension of slight tannin from the muscat skins. Altogether different. Altogether delicious."