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Aria Sparkling 2025
Aria Sparkling 2025
A bottle of La Mesa Aria sparkling white wine with a gold foil and yellow label stands next to a clear wine glass filled with pale golden wine, set on a terrasse table with a blurred garden background of green foliage and pink flowers.
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Aria Sparkling 2025

Aria is our premium blanc-de-noir sparkling white wine. New for the 2025 vintage, made using Primitivo Blanc, a white wine made with our oldest red Primitivo estate red grapes.  The Primitivo is quickly pressed from the field with minimal skin contact and fermented "blanc" in our egg-shaped Apollo tanks to enhance aromatics. Made in the French “champenoise” style, which means fermentation in bottle for over 4 months.  Light and airy with super-fine bubbles, the Primitivo brings its lush notes of plum, dried cherries, black pepper, vanilla, and licorice with an exceptionally long and smooth finish.  11.5% alcohol. 109 cases produced.

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Details

Appellation:

Shenandoah Valley

Winemaker Notes:

This premium sparkling is made from our Primitivo Blanc, a white wine made from our oldest Primitivo estate grapes. The red grapes are quickly pressed from the field with minimal skin contact and fermented "blanc" in our egg-shaped Apollo tanks that enhance aromatics. This wine traveled offsite for bottling to a winery specializing in champagne method, which involves adding small doses of yeast and sugar to ferment and generate the tiny bubbles, “riddling” the bottles moving the solids into the neck and disgorging the solids by freezing the neck wine solid with dry ice. This champenoise method takes 4 months, instead of a shortcut “Charmat” which would typically take 2 weeks. The wine delivers well on enhanced flavors and super-fine bubbles.

Vineyard Notes:

Planted on deep-growing and drought-tolerant special rootstock, our Estate Old Vine Primitivo grows on a steep hillside at a 2,000-foot altitude in Amador County’s Shenandoah Valley of the Sierra Foothills. It thrives in warm daytime breezes from the Central Valley and cool Sierra evenings, a 30-degree swing in temperature. Our Primitivo is dry-farmed with sustainable growing practices.