“Once it’s progressing along, we chill the wine way down and we basically then bottle the wine while it’s still in fermentation process. It predates Champagne-style wine and it’s done without adding sugar to the secondary fermentation,” Buckel said. “Pétillant naturel is the ancestral method of making sparkling wine. But the Gunnison-based business also experiments with a style of sparkling wine known as pétillant naturel, which gets its bubbles thanks to naturally occurring yeast in the bottle or atmosphere that eat sugar from the fruit - a process known as spontaneous fermentation. Here’s more on how the company and three local winemakers do sparkling.īuckel Family Wine is known for what co-founder Shamai Buckel calls “dry, old style” wines made from grapes sourced primarily in Colorado. So we went all in on that.”Ĭarboy is hardly the only winery in the Centennial State to notice this trendy style bubbling to the surface.
“With sparkling wine becoming an everyday drinking option, now I’m saying the future of Colorado wine might be in sparkling wine. “I was quoted back in 2017, 2018 for saying I think cab franc is what puts Colorado on the map,” Webber said. Many of the white varietals that Carboy grows at its two vineyards in the Grand Valley appellation are high in acidity and minerality, and are able to be harvested early so they don’t succumb to autumn freezes, he said. It helps that the grapes that grow well in Colorado lend themselves to sparkling wines, Webber said. The newly opened Western Slope tasting room and winery will soon boast a new facility to house four to six steel Charmat tanks, popularly used by Italian winemakers in creating prosecco, which will enable Carboy to dramatically scale up its production of sparkling wines and satisfy visitors who are increasingly reaching for them.
Tuesday, June 13th 2023 Home Page Close MenuĬonstruction is underway at Carboy Winery in Palisade, where crews are laying the foundation for the next phase of the business and what CEO Kevin Webber believes is the next big thing in Colorado wine: bubbles.
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