Constantly evolving, this lightly effervescent and slightly cloudy wine reveals itself to you in a unique way each time. Dry, lively, and thirst-quenching, this crackling wine on lees is perfect for aperitifs and long summer evenings.
colfo 2024 – can
9.30 $
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Description
To your good health, planet earth!
Recycling glass bottles and greenhouse gas emissions while transporting our wines, are constant preoccupations for our winery.
Aluminium is a perfect answer to our environmental and quality requirements. Not only is it infinitely recyclable, it also requires very little energy to produce. Furthermore, the carbon footprint generated by deliveries is greatly reduced as aluminium weighs so little. And most importantly, aluminium maintains the integrity of the wine and its effervescence.
Colfo was the very first canned sparkling wine in Québec and its popularity proved that we are ready to embrace new environmentally friendly alternatives to the traditional glass bottles. Cheers! To your good health and to planet earth’s too!
Tasting & pairings
Ecologically sound, canned wine is also practical and ideal for picnics, to carry along on a walk, to pack with your fishing gear or to bring to a barbecue. Colfo is undoubtably a summer wine, in a perfect individual size (unless you want to share it, of course).
Drinking temperature : 10 °C
Can be stored and kept : up to 9 months from the date of canning
Notes from the winemaker
The 2024 vintage was marked by a particularly warm and sunny season, offering us an abundance of exceptional red grapes. This red year, as we like to call it, allowed us to unleash our creativity in developing new products we’ve long dreamed of.
It’s a year that was, above all, filled with a lot of love. Love that we want more than ever to share with you, one bottle (or can) at a time:
Hand-harvested 72 tons of grapes • 108 hours of juice extraction • 40 days protecting the grapes from their natural predators • 8 days spreading and smelling the manure • 85 tank transfers • 600 hours of manual weeding with a pickaxe • 10 exceptional humans pampering the vines 7 days a week from April to November!
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Grapes are pressed directly as soon as they are picked, and then go through a low temperautre fermentation to preserve a maximum of fruit and crispness.
Following a short maceration and a first alcoholic fermentation, the base wine is mixed with a starter made of base wine and organic beet sugar, and canned on the same day. The bubbles are formed during the second fermentation in the can. More fizzy than sparkling, it contains twice as less pressure than our traditional methods. We do not disgorge the Calf, as it would be impossible to open the can to extract the lees and then close it again, as we do for sparkling wine in bottles. Indeed, Col Fondo, which means “with the bottom” in italian, is a reference to the lees that deposit on the bottom of the bottle (or can, in our specific case) at the end of the second fermentation. The wine is neither fined nor filtered.
Technical specifications
Winemaking : Second fermentation in the can, on lees
Grape content : 37% Frontenac Blanc, 28% Vidal, 15% Geisenheim, 10% Frontenac Gris, 7% LaCrescent, 3% Riesling
Type : brut nature (zero dosage)
Dosage : 0 g/L de sucre
Degree of alcohol : 12,2 %
Format : 250 ml
Nature wine
Suitable for vegans
A of November 1st, 2023, a deposit fee of $ 0.10 is required on all 250 ml cans.
Tech Sheet – Coming soon
Previous Vintages
Range
Atelier Bergeville
The Québec terroir is perfect for bubbles. Our Atelier Bergeville range allows us to blend grapes harvested across the province to create exciting sparkling wines. We explore the untapped potential of various regions and use our creativity to celebrate québecois winemaking.
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