2021 Sparkling Lilly Rosé, Extended Tirage
100% Grenache
We are excited to present our fifth vintage of Sparkling Lilly Rosé, made from the finest Folded Hills Grenache grapes from the Alban clone, perched on our hillside vineyard just four miles from the ocean. This wine is a tribute to six generations of strong, loving women, from Lilly Anheuser in 1844, to our beautiful granddaughter.
This sparkling rosé is made in the traditional and coveted Méthode Traditionnelle style, the process used in the Champagne region of France, with a second fermentation in the bottle to develop the "sparkle" followed by extended aging on the lees to develop complexity and body. The grapes were pressed after 24 hours on skins and then fermented naturally in stainless barrels for six months.
The yeast then acts on the sugar, and the resulting carbon dioxide remains trapped in the bottle. After 33 months en tirage, the wine was then disgorged, a process where the crown cap is removed and replaced with a traditional cork with a wire cage.