2021 Chalmers Wines "Col Fondo", Heathcote, Victoria, AustraliaABOUT THIS WINE Were never shy of proclaiming our love of Aglianico, and rose. and sparkling wine for that matter, so here is our love child of these passions; Chalmers Col Fondo, a sparkling Aglianico Rosato complete with the lees in the bottle. What is Col Fondo? Col Fondo is unfiltered sparkling wine and its cloudy with the lees left in the bottle. With its second fermentation occurring in the bottle, similar to Champagne, the result is something

one of the three villages that make up the Cotes de Nuits-Villages (CDNV) appellation that's located between Beaune and Nuits St Georges

Like most vine-growers at the time

but rather from an old stone quarry just a couple hundred meters away

two Pineaux des Charentes and…due to excessive rarity

Europe was the inspiration

built a house with annexed millstone in Contrada Piano Fiera with adjacent 2 hectares of vineyard to which two more were added on the north side of Etna in the Piano Felci area at 1

It was created in 2003 by Thibault Liger-Belair

the vegetation and climate seems almost Mediterranean

This has meant a return to a more typical Clos des Papes blend

specifically the ancient hill-town of Enserune (15 mins southwest of Béziers)

expressed perfectly in this terroir driven wine

Clapier’s winemaking roots begin with his great-grandfather