The Prisoner Wine Company Unshackled Sparkling Rose 2018 750ml

A brut-style California wine featuring fresh, fruit-forward aromas tempered by a touch of minerality and offering lively, bright flavors of apricot and yellow peach. Aged for 36 months en tirage to ensure the highest quality, this bubbles wine is made with chardonnay and pinot noir varietals sourced from California, and each sip features a vibrant acidity and a crisp, clean finish. For optimal flavor, refrigerate for at least three hours and serve chilled.

• Country: United States
• Region: California
• Size: 750ml
• Color: Rose

Varietal

Champagne Blend

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn’t unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as ‘blanc de blanc’, meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or ‘blanc de noir’, which is made solely with Pinot Noir.