Pop Some Colorado Bubbles: Ring In The Season With Sparkling Wine From Sauvage Spectrum
Winter is the perfect time to raise a glass of sparkling wine in celebration of the season. Sparklet is a delightful and affordable Colorado sparkling wine born from Sauvage Spectrum, a picturesque vineyard in Palisade.
“The focus is quality,” shares winemaker Patric Matysiewski, “but we’ve kept Sparklet value-driven, fun, fruit-forward and affordable. This isn’t Champagne — we’re not aging on the lees for two years, and we’re not looking for brioche dough flavors — we want to capture the fruit.”
Photo courtesy of Sauvage Spectrum
Sauvage Spectrum’s wines are 100-percent estate grown and bottled. Wine grower Kaibab Sauvage says the company stays focused on hitting a high quality to price ratio.
“We are trying to elevate what Colorado wine is,” he shares, “and our whole core lineup is all 20 dollars or less.”
The Spoke+Blossom team tried all three variations of Sparklet on our recent visit to the winery, and it’s hard to choose a favorite.
Sparklet Extra Dry is a blend of three Colorado white grapes. It’s bone dry, fruit forward, smooth and approachable.
Sparklet Rosé is playful and lively, showing off flavors of pink grapefruit and sweet strawberries. Fermented in stainless steel, every sip strikes the palate with a balance of sweetness and acidity.
Sparklet Off Dry blends two Colorado white grapes, bringing a little more perfumed aromatics forward, celebrating flavors of gardenia, honeysuckle and pineapple, along with nectarine and ripe apricot, and splashes of lemon and pear on the finish.
“When we set out we said that we wanted to make sparkling wines affordable,” Sauvage says, “and that’s what we did. That’s Sparklet.”
Originally published in the Winter 2020-21 issue of Spoke+Blossom.