Countdown
resolutions (PT 1)
-Only one egg nog enema a week
-I will finally get my own apartment and move out of my co-worker’s cello case
-Minimize my disdain for humanity somehow
-Foster a taco
-Learn to drive a Duck Tour boat
-Overcome my shellfish allergy using sheer willpower
-Do forty pushups on the moon every morning
-End difficult conversations with a snappy musical number
-Learn to speak penguin English
-Consume a whole lotta bubbly for absolutely no reason
Features
Delivered in time for New Years
2010 Classic Vintage Brut 750ml
The 2010 Classic Vintage Brut is 'brut' level dry and vintage in every sense of the word. Rich, creamy and delicious with precise, pinpoint bubbles.
By nose: rising dough, orange marmalade and baked apple
By mouth: ripe red apple, mandarin orange and hazelnut
2010 Russian Cuvee 750ml
Russian Cuvee is the richest, most opulent of the Iron Horse bubblies, though it is technically a Brut. The dosage for this wine is 16 mls of special LEX (50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay).
By nose: Caramel apple, nutmeg and orange zest
By mouth: ripe red apple, lime, brioche and brown sugar
2010 Brut X 750ml
The 2010 Brut X is extremely dry, extremely bright and extemely expressive. This is the kind of bubbly you can drink all night long. It is bone dry. the dosage is "sugar free," but intensely flavored, complex and polished.
By nose: raspberry, custard and hazelnut
By mouth: lime, honeysuckle and nectarine.
Specs
2010 Classic Vintage Brut 750ml
Food Pairing Notes: This is a beautiful sparkling with crispy pomme frittes with sea salt and black pepper, truffle popcorn, avocado and baby shrimp salad, bacon and watercress sandwich, wild mushroom tart, spaghetti with cream, parmesan and crispy onions, roast duckling with citrus.
- Varietal: Brut
- Appellation: Green Valley
- Harvest Date: August 27 - September 22, 2010
- Acid: .87 g/100ml
- pH: 3.08
- Bottling Date: July, 2011
- Residual Sugar: .83 g/100ml
- Alcohol %: 13.5
- Total Production: 2400 cases
2010 Russian Cuvee 750ml
Food Pairing Notes: This is a perfect toasting wine. It is lovely with dessert, especially pumpkin, apple and pecan pies and anything to do with ginger and spice.
- Varietal: Cuvee
- Appellation: Green Valley
- Acid: .80 g/100ml
- pH: 3.06
- Aging: 3 plus years en tirage
- Residual Sugar: 1.3 g/100ml
- Alcohol %: 13.5
- Total production: 800 cases
2010 Brut X 750ml
- Appellation: Green Valley
- Harvest Date: August 27 - September 22, 2010
- Acid: .87 g/100ml
- pH: 3.08
- Aging: Current disgorging, September 2014
- Bottling Date: August, 2011
- Residual Sugar: .2 g/100ml
- Alcohol %: 13.5
- Varietal: 69% Pinot Noir, 31% Chardonnay
- 500 cases produced
Specs
2010 Classic Vintage Brut 750ml
Food Pairing Notes: This is a beautiful sparkling with crispy pomme frittes with sea salt and black pepper, truffle popcorn, avocado and baby shrimp salad, bacon and watercress sandwich, wild mushroom tart, spaghetti with cream, parmesan and crispy onions, roast duckling with citrus.
- Varietal: Brut
- Appellation: Green Valley
- Harvest Date: August 27 - September 22, 2010
- Acid: .87 g/100ml
- pH: 3.08
- Bottling Date: July, 2011
- Residual Sugar: .83 g/100ml
- Alcohol %: 13.5
- Total Production: 2400 cases
2010 Russian Cuvee 750ml
Food Pairing Notes: This is a perfect toasting wine. It is lovely with dessert, especially pumpkin, apple and pecan pies and anything to do with ginger and spice.
- Varietal: Cuvee
- Appellation: Green Valley
- Acid: .80 g/100ml
- pH: 3.06
- Aging: 3 plus years en tirage
- Residual Sugar: 1.3 g/100ml
- Alcohol %: 13.5
- Total production: 800 cases
2010 Brut X 750ml
- Appellation: Green Valley
- Harvest Date: August 27 - September 22, 2010
- Acid: .87 g/100ml
- pH: 3.08
- Aging: Current disgorging, September 2014
- Bottling Date: August, 2011
- Residual Sugar: .2 g/100ml
- Alcohol %: 13.5
- Varietal: 69% Pinot Noir, 31% Chardonnay
- 500 cases produced
Vendor Details
Iron Horse
- Owner:
- Audrey, Barry, Joy & Laurence Sterling
- Founded:
- 1979
- Location:
- Sebastopol, CA
Iron Horse is one of Sonoma County's most prestigious, small, independent, estate, family owned wineries located in cool, foggy Green Valley. Iron Horse Sparkling Wines have been served at the White House for five consecutive presidential administrations, beginning with the Reagan-Gorbachev Summit Meeting in Geneva on November 20, 1985, which led to the end of the Cold War. Wine & Spirits Magazine has named Iron Horse Sparkling Winery of the Year nine times. From the beginning, Robert Parker has said, "These impressive Sparkling Wines...possess more texture and flavor than just about any sparkler I have tasted from California."
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