Jester King Releasing 2021 SPON Touriga Nacional & 2021 SPON Chenin Blanc / Sparkling Cherry Wine

From Jester King:

Our first SPON release this year is a dual one — 2021 SPON Touriga Nacional and 2021 SPON Chenin Blanc!

Both beers are two-year-old blends of spontaneously fermented beer re-fermented with Central Coast grapes. 2021 SPON Touriga Nacional is 10.4% abv and is very juicy and fruit forward. The mature SPON serves as a nice backdrop to the 2021 fruit, which is still presenting fruity and vibrant. 2021 SPON Chenin Blanc is 8.1% abv and is quite mineral forward. The Gueuze-like character of the base SPON base beer melds wonderfully with the minerality in our opinion.

Thank you to Andrew Jones of Field Recordings Winery in Paso Robles, California for helping us procure some outstanding grapes for these two SPON projects.

Head to the brewery to get a glass or purchase bottles to go (750ml/$36) onsite in the Jester King shop. Also available to-go at the link: https://bit.ly/3trLmoZ. We have about 500 bottles of Touriga & 350 bottles of Chenin Blanc available. 11 bottle limit per person. Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas.

Artwork by Joshua Cockrell. Photo by Jessica Attie.

Our first wine release of the new year is here — Jester King 2022 Sparkling Cherry Wine!

Our Sparkling Cherry Wine is a blend of 50% Balaton and 50% Montmorency cherries from Michigan. We fermented the cherries with our house mixed culture last May, then aged the wine in oak barrels for seven months. We then naturally conditioned the wine through refermentation in the bottle. No additives, preservatives, adjunct ingredients, or anything else. Just fruit, yeast, and time. 5.5% abv.

This cherry wine is a lot of fun. Despite the very simple process, the flavors and aromatics leap out of the glass. We got bold aromas of cherry pie and marzipan. It finished around zero Plato, so it’s fully fermented and dry. We hope you enjoy the first Jester King wine of 2022. More to come!

Head to the brewery this week to get a glass or purchase bottles to go (750ml/$24) onsite in the Jester King shop. Also available to-go here: https://bit.ly/3sGkaUg. We have about 450 bottles available. 11 bottle limit per person. Shipping/delivery illegal in Texas.

Art by Joshua Cockrell. Photo by Jess Attie.