Stolpman Vineyards Love You Bunches Orange Wine 2021

Winemaker’s Notes

Stolpman Vineyards Love You Bunches Orange Wine 2021

Varietal Blend
50% Pinot Gris
23% Orange Muscat
19% Semillion
8% Gewurztraminer

Background

As we’ve expanded our carbonic So Fresh brand as to include deeper hues of red, we began to think about the other direction on the rainbow, how could we make an interesting, delicious wine a lighter hue than Love You Bunches Carbonic Sangiovese? The obvious answer was a carbonic orange wine that would combine the fresh purity of Stolpman Vineyards Love You Bunches Orange Wine with the titillating textures of a fleshy orange wine. Tasting each varietal each day, across the board, we pressed each varietal after 6 days of carbonic fermentation and let the wines finish fermenting in tank.

The pun “Love You Bunches” refers to the gentle treatment of each grape bunch so we don’t rupture grapes. The grapes then ferment whole, when yeast penetrate through the grape skins to ferment within. The term “carbonic” describes fermentation occurring in a sealed tank. The yeast have digest all available oxygen, creating carbon dioxide within.

Stolpman Vineyards Love You Bunches Orange Wine is Natural, bottled unfiltered with no sulfur added.