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a brown bottle of wine on a table in front of the san francisco bay bridge with the label 'don't tell mom'
a wine label called 'don't tell mom' with a cat clock next to a burning room

2023 Don't Tell Mom

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Technically it’s a piquette but our panel of experts all thought it was Gamay d’Auvergne. A blend of various lots made up of Pinot, Carignan, Syrah, and Sauvignon Blanc. Serve chilled and try not to drink too fast

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Technically it’s a piquette but our panel of experts all thought it was Gamay d’Auvergne. A blend of various lots made up of Pinot, Carignan, Syrah, and Sauvignon Blanc. Serve chilled and try not to drink too fast

Technically it’s a piquette but our panel of experts all thought it was Gamay d’Auvergne. A blend of various lots made up of Pinot, Carignan, Syrah, and Sauvignon Blanc. Serve chilled and try not to drink too fast

Ek it is TECHNICALLY piquette. But you don’t even really need to tell people that. It drinks very lambrusco-esque and reminds me of the sparkling gamays I would drink in Auvergne that first inspired me to make sparkling reds.

I think there are 2 factors that go into making this piquette exceptional:

  1. I don’t press the grapes very hard during the winemaking process as it goes against one of the key winemaking tenets of not being greedy. This leaves a bit more oomph in the skins for the piquette

  2. We add AS LITTLE water as possible. I’m trying to get as little liquid from each piquette ferment, but as concentrated as possible. Just enough is added so that I can barely, JUST BARELY, submerge the cap twice a day.

  3. (Yeah I guess it is 3 factors) careful management of co2 on the cap

During harvest I made several batches of piquettes as time, and tank space allowed, from both fermented and direct-pressed pomaces. From many different grapes. We keep the ones that taste good and dump the others. The final blend for 2023 is made up of Syrah, Carignan, Pinot, and Sauvignon Blanc(in descending proportional order). It is delicious. It’s what you really want to drink when you dont really want to drink wine but kinda do. Brambly berries, peppery, gueuzey. Like boozy gatorade. Probably what was in Michael Jordan’s water bottle in Space Jam, the 1996 feature film.

These are disgorged, so no fear of explosive bottles

nothing added or removed. no sulfur. not contract or custom crush.

Combined orders of 3, 6, or 12 bottles only please :D Flat-rate $30 for shipping

Orders will begin shipping December 3rd. Combined orders of 3, 6, and 12 bottles only please(unless picking up at the winery on February 18). Must be 21 or older to order. Adult signature required for delivery. Shipping unavailable for ND, NH, UT, MS, AL, VT, KY, SD.