William Heritage Winery, Estate Reserve Vintage Brut 2016, Outer Coastal Plain, New Jersey

Tasting Note: A festival of yeasty autolytic flavors that Champagne lovers will adore.

Pale-intensity lemon in color, this wine has an aromatic, medium-plus-intensity nose of brioche, bread dough and quince with hints of caramel.

On the palate the dry, medium-plus-bodied sparkling wine has medium-plus-intensity flavors suggested on the nose supported by medium-plus acidity and completing with a long finish.

Two years of lees aging gives way to abundant midpalate concentration.

A serious sparkling wine to introduce a friend to New Jersey wine.

Bottle Note: 71% Chardonnay, 29% Pinot Noir. William & Penni Heritage Proprietors. Six generations of family growers. William H. Heritage. Penni L. Heritage. Sean Comninos, Winemaker.