Treat Yourself! Halloween Candy x Wine Pairing
This year has been pretty spooky. On top of all the crappy things that have unfolded, our beloved Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. Usually, this would be great news, but we’re in the middle of a pandemic, so it feels like a big old trick. (Shelburne Vineyard is, however, OPEN for socially distant celebrations on Saturday!). While you’re dressed up with nowhere to go in your living room, treat yourself to a sweet escape. We have some great suggestions on how to pair your favorite wines with classic Halloween candy. Lots of research went into these pairings, so we hope you’ll try them out at home!
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The Antidote For Your Palate Fatigue: 2018 IAPETUS ANTECEDENT
Having that first sip of Antecedent after a long day pretty much feels like stripping off all your clothing and jumping into Lake Champlain after running a half marathon in the middle of July. Needless to say, if you’ve never had Antecedent before, you’re in for a treat. This wine is 100% Vermont Grown Riesling. These grapes were planted at our Meach Cove site right off of Shelburne Bay in 1999, and since then we’ve made some pretty good Riesling under our Shelburne Vineyard line. However, we took it to the next level with Antecedent.
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TECTONIC SHIFTS: ORANGE WINE FROM VERMONT IS A THING
If you haven’t tried orange wine from Vermont, I highly recommend it! Our 2018 IAPETUS Tectonic is one of my favorite wines for so many reasons. Tectonic is a skin-contact wine – what’s often also called an orange wine. This kind of wine is made with white grapes, but they’re treated like a red grape in terms of the winemaking. After pressing, the skins & seeds are kept in contact with the juice – sometimes just for a few days, sometimes for a lot longer. Skin contact wines are actually a very old style of winemaking that originated in the country of Georgia, and it’s a style I love. I’ve had a lot of them, and I think Tectonic is on par with the best.
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MAKING PÉT-NAT: A BEAUTIFUL MESS
If you’re not obsessed with Pét-Nats yet, then you haven’t tried them. We’re obsessed and have been for years now and it seems as though the tastebuds of the everyday wine drinker has caught up.
So let’s start from the beginning: What is a Pét-Nat?
The term has its origins in French, a shortening of the phrase “pétillant naturel” which translates to “naturally bubbly.” Need we say more?
The process has a murky past, but is known to predate the “méthode Champenoise,” a process invented by Dom Pérignon centuries ago. This process ripped off what had been done in other parts of France for decades, notably in Limoux, and popularized it. Before Champagne was Champagne, winemakers were using the “méthode ancestral” to produce fun, fizzy wines.
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MAY ALL OF YOUR WEEDS BE WILDFLOWERS
Here at Shelburne Vineyard we've made it our mission to look at the details of our land and how we manage it that affect both the microscopic scale of the soil health around one individual vine and on the macroscopic scale of both our local environmental health and our global climatic health.
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