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BXT "McCormack Ranch" 2022 Blanc de Noir Sparkling Pinot Noir Solano County

BXT "McCormack Ranch" 2022 Blanc de Noir Sparkling Pinot Noir Solano County

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750ml bottle

12% abv

"Freshly picked redcurrant leaves and cherry blossom-like tones meet you on the nose. Flavors of Cox’s Orange Pippin, freshly crushed raspberry, wet granite minerals, a hint of strawberry and cream on warm shortbread. Rich and flavorful but delineated by racy, mouthwatering acidity.

"The McCormack Ranch Blanc De Noirs is 100% Pinot Noir from a vineyard right on the banks of the Sacramento River in deep sandy soils. Perhaps not the first place you might think of for Pinot Noir…but Tom found a great grower with a few acres planted to a specific sparkling clone of Pinot Noir right on the river where cooling delta breezes produce pure racy fruit that lends itself perfectly to making traditional method sparkling wines. The wine is fermented with native yeast in neutral oak, large puncheons and Stockinger casks are favorites of Tom’s for the 6-9 months of elevage before secondary fermentation. The wine then sees 18+ months on the lees before being riddled by hand. Less than 50cs produced...Really cool wine. Very limited.

"The idea of BXT (which by the way stands for “Bubbles x Tom”) is to take a grower-Champagne mentality and apply it to top-quality, hand-crafted sparkling wines made in California. Tom seeks out interesting vineyard sites, makes very small batches of wines including oak aging base wines, hand-riddling, disgorging, and writing on every single bottle."

 – Ryan Woodhouse

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