KEUSH 2017 Ultra Brut Nature Blanc de Noir Sparkling Wine Armenia

Bloomberg's 2022 Top 10 Wine of the Year Bloomberg's 2022 Discovery of the Year “My discovery of the year is this light, zesty, crisp and mineral bubbly made from areni noir grapes in Armenia, whose winemaking tradition goes back 6,100 years. The unusual, super-dry fizz was cooling in an ice bucket on a table of platinum award winners from the Texsom wine competition at the Grand Tasting during the organization's annual wine conference, where I was speaking. I was impressed from the first sip. Founder Vahe Keushguerian makes it with the same method used in Champagne. The grapes, a local red variety, grow in vineyards at an elevation of 6,000 feet on land that sits between Armenian and Azerbaijani military bases. The lesson? Good bubbly now comes from even the planet's most surprising spots.” Elin McCoy Keush Ultra represents the perfect storm of limestone and volcanic rock growing idyllic grapes, ripened by extreme high elevation sunlight situated at 1750 meters above sea level. Hand-p