Cruse Wine - Cruse Tradition Sparkling NV (750ml) Santa Clara Valley on the mouth’s senses

on the mouth’s senses

a foretoken of the long aging potential of this Argentine masterpiece

followed by light

Vineyard name: The Marcorino vineyard

Vintage 2021 was characterised by climatic variation extremes throughout spring and early summer and then developing into a fantastic finish

Cruse Wine - Cruse Tradition Sparkling NV (750ml) Santa Clara Valley on the mouth’s sensesMichael Cruse is still tinkering with the style of Tradition, his non vintage sparkler. This sees no sulfur during elevage, and the combination of lees and mild oxidation results in a wine of unusual and dramatic savor. Salty, nutty, bready, with a lees character so pronounced it brings sherry to mind, the wine nevertheless has a tremendous tension to the its structure, a lemon curd brightness over the breadth from the lees yielding an umami character