2021 Stolpman Vineyards Combe Pet' Nat Trousseau

Product description

Vibrant, glowing pink and peach hue.  Fine but robust bubble.  Fresh tropical fruits and high-toned, energetic red fruit.  Steely and lean, yet chalky with a subtle, lingering richness.  Buzzy, fizzy splendor from the mid-palate through to long after swallowing.  More coating with bigger fruit than ever before.  A full, fleshy sparkling wine, the best Combe Pet’nat to date.  Berry parfait in a glass!

Pete Stolpman and Rajat Parr’s Esoteric Partnership “Combe” means a “small sheltered valley within a vineyard” in French.

When Rajat Parr began making Sandhi Chardonnay alongside Stolpman in the Lompoc Wine Ghetto back in 2010, he immediately started a campaign to plant Trousseau on Stolpman’s Ballard Canyon Limestone soils.  Vignerons in Jura seek out Limestone for their Trousseau plantings, and Rajat theorized that Trousseau, a varietal that often has difficulty achieving ripeness, would flourish in the sunny, arid Ballard Canyon wind tunnel.