Get ready to taste the latest releases from the 2025 vintage! These wines have become favorites in the tasting room, and we’re very excited to share the new vintage with you all.
2025 Starlight
wild raspberry. grenadine. white tea.
One vineyard block, one harvest day, one fermenter.
Starlight is a dry rosé made entirely from Marquette. The Lower Vineyard provides the fruit for this wine, which we like to harvest a bit earlier in the season to showcase the variety’s bright, fresh, and fruity side. A lighter Marquette crop in 2025 meant that the entire lower block went into Starlight. Every drop came from those vines, and their fruit went no where else.
We harvested on the morning of September 12th alongside enthusiastic and generous volunteers from our community. After picking, the juice was immediately pressed from the berries and transferred to a single stainless steel tank, where it remained until we bottled it last month, just as the eight month (!) spontaneous fermentation finally came to an end.
Like many of the wines we’ve released from this vintage, the 2025 Starlight feels more delicate and restrained than its 2024 counterpart. We think this is the vineyard’s expression of a larger than normal diurnal shift in August and September, which slowed ripening and helped retain acidity and fruit character. And golly, there’s a lot of fruit — raspberry, cranberry, elderberry, and just about any other berry you can think of. Wait till you taste it.
Starlight is a snapshot of a single vineyard at a single moment in time. It’s one of the most transparent and expressive wines we make.
2025 Frontenac Noir
macerated cherries. blackberry jam. palo santo.
Adaptability, age, and time.
While Starlight was one of our first picks in 2025, Frontenac Noir was our very last. We harvested the fruit for this wine on October 10th with ice crystals of the season’s first frost crunching underfoot. We started early and were finished by noon, by which time the leaves had fallen from the vines, bittersweet closure on another stunning growing season.
If there is one variety in the vineyard that we’ve learned the most from it might be Frontenac Noir. We went into the 2024 harvest thinking we’d make a light-bodied, fruity, chillable expression of Frontenac Noir, but the wine turned out to be so much more. We were blown away by its richness, complexity, and depth, and inspired by who the wine wanted to be. Smitten, we leaned further into that style in 2025. We love letting the vines take the lead, reacting to the season and adapting our practices in the cellar to best represent them.
Immaculate weather and a total lack of rainfall at the end of the season allowed us to push the ripeness and get the most out of the vines. We picked more than a week later than in 2024 and the fruit was beautifully ripe, dimpled and delicious. In the cellar, we included 30% whole clusters in the fermentation, stems and all, contributing texture and spice. We fermented a bit cooler, extracting slowly and carefully, and pressing earlier than our other reds.
This wine changes profoundly with age, both in the winery and in bottle. In its youth, we find incredible aromatic intensity centered on a dense and complex core of fruit. With time, the fruit will soften, turning jammier and plummier, and the wine’s earthiness, smoke, and spice will shine through.
Frontenac Noir is a testament to Vermont’s ability to produce truly profound, age-worthy wines. Buy a few bottles and open them periodically to watch the wine change.