2021 Broc Cellars ''Love Sparkling'' Chenin Blanc Pétillant Naturel, Paso Robles, California, USAABOUT THIS WINE: They use the Petillant Natural method for making the Love Sparkling. For 2020, the juice was left on the skins overnight and pressed into stainless steel tank. Fermented until it reached 15 grams of sugar, then chilled the wine down to stop fermentation and bottled the juice. As it warmed up, fermentation occurred again in bottle. Wine spent 7 months in bottle and was disgorged by hand with no dosage. ABOUT THIS PRODUCER: Chris

At Forlorn Hope Wines

She has mostly crafted her wines using de-stemmed grapes and a more ‘standard’ maceration/fermentation process

3-Blade Foil Cutter

To set the scene

The winery was launched out of a love for wine that Chris developed while working in the restaurant trade for almost 20 years

Oger and Avize as well – in the last 20 years there has been a lot of work

specifically in the lieu-dits of Côteau de Saint-Jean and Cabane de Saint-Jean

From the Brut Royale Reserve

The fermentation period usually last for 2 weeks using the grape’s native yeasts

The region's Mediterranean climate

that is because it is

and rosé wines