Contact Rack & Riddle to Reserve Space for Your Sparkling Base-to-Bottle Project! (707) 857-4000

Did you know that Rack & Riddle can produce premium, méthode champenoise sparkling wine from your base wine?

With the guidance of our expert winemakers, you can produce your own sparkling wine from base-to-bottle. Rack & Riddle can tirage bottle, age, disgorge and then label your wine. Full-service sparkling wine production ensures your wine is in the best of hands from start to finish.

If you're interested in our base-to-bottle services, please contact us right away to book your project; base wine is typically brought in to our facility around December or January, but reservations for space are happening now!

Follow these tips from our winemakers to prep your base wine just right: 

Tips for Picking:

• Taste grapes in the vineyard for flavor profile
• Pick at 17-20 Brix
• pH 2.9 to 3.2
• TA 0.9 to 1.2

Tips for Base Wine:

• 11% is the preferred alcohol percentage for the wine coming in.
• We aim for the finished product to be in the 12.5% to 13% range.
• 3.1 pH is ideal, but it is adjustable if wine comes in at a lower or higher pH.

Have a Happy Harvest!

The Rack & Riddle Team
Rack & Riddle Custom Wine Services