Our long-awaited spring release is almost here! We’re thrilled to be popping the corks on the first of the 2025 wines: Limestone, La Crescent, and Black Sparrow. Compared to the rich, powerful wines of the 2024 vintage, 2025 delivered brighter, more delicate wines with lots of complexity and nuance. It was a cooler growing season in ‘25, allowing for slow, even ripening and greater retention of acid. Translation: these are bright, fresh, and fruity wines perfect for the advent of summer.
2025 Limestone
As a blend of every white variety that we grow, Limestone is a great representation of the unique terroir of our vineyard. Louise Swenson is the backbone, its intense minerality and firm acidity laying the foundation on top of which the other varieties shine. La Crescent and Prairie Star bring juiciness and a floral, citrusy lift, while Adalmiina adds a waxy, lanolin-like texture you might find in Chenin Blanc.
Compared to 2024, the 2025 Limestone is delicate and nuanced with intense minerality and more subtle fruit. It was a cooler growing season, which meant that ripening was slower and more even, resulting in a wine with beautiful finesse and plenty of zip. This is a great example of vintage variation - the difference in how a wine tastes from year to year based on the weather’s influence on the grapes during the growing season.
You’ll like Limestone if you like Sauvignon Blanc, Grüner Veltliner, or Txakoli.
2025 La Crescent
This wine comes from the Lower Vineyard where the silty clays typical of the Champlain Valley provide the vines with plenty of water and nutrients, helping them grow vigorously and creating wines with great fruit intensity.
We pressed the bunches as soon as they were picked and fermented the juice slowly to retain its enchanting aroma. We went a bit drier in 2025, letting the yeast eat more of the sugar before stopping fermentation when we thought the balance was just right.
Just as it did with Limestone, the 2025 vintage gave us La Crescent with a lighter body and more pronounced acidity than in 2024, and punchy aromas of melon and flowers. We love the idea of vintage variation. Wine has the ability to clarify and communicate the character of a growing season in ways that fresh fruit can’t.
You’ll like La Crescent if you like Riesling, Chenin Blanc, or Alsatian whites.
2025 Black Sparrow
Black Sparrow and La Crescent are sisters. The two wines are made from the same vineyard block, but the fruit for Black Sparrow is picked more than a week earlier. On the east side of Lower La Crescent the vines are less vigorous, so the fruit has more sun exposure and tends to ripen a bit earlier than the rest of the block. These are the vines that grow Black Sparrow.
In the cellar, we arrest the fermentation early to leave a small amount of residual sugar and just over 11% abv. Light-bodied, citrusy, and just sweet enough to stand up to spice makes it the perfect wine for sushi or curry.
You’ll like Black Sparrow if you like off-dry Riesling, Vinho Verde, or Pinot Grigio.