Winemaker Notes
This bright, crisp and delicious sparkling wine from the North Fork consists of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. It shows aromas of bright green apple and light buttery notes surrounding crisp acidity and medium weight. Hand-harvested from sandy loam soils and made in the Méthode Champenoise with zero dosage. It is matured on the lees for 24 months for added depth and complexity.
Blend: 60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Bright and aromatic while also rich and honeyed, this offers heady notes of green apple, apricot jam, marmalade and flora's, with a salty flicker. There’s a slight sweetness and richness to the palate that’s counteracted by a burst of lively fizz and lovely bright, crisp acidity, along with layers of flavor.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The RGNY White Sparkling Wine is crisp, bright, and alive. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers aromas and flavors of pear skin, ripe apples, and dried earthy notes. Pair it with pan-fried crab cakes. (Tasted: July 11, 2023, San Francisco, CA)
From Mexico to New York: Started in 2019, RG | NY is a new brand from the Rivero González family who have cultivated the land of their vineyards in Parras, Coahulia Mexico –the oldest winegrowing region in the Americas - for 25 years. The González family is characterized by being true to their values excellence, heritage, craft, innovation, sustainability, and community. They aim to continue their family’s winemaking tradition and legacy on the North Fork. Bright, expressive, young, and fruit-forward. These are wines that perfectly represent North Fork region; well-balanced acidity and freshness with a lingering finish that seamlessly makes them the perfect wines for year-round consumption. Comprised of complex wines from special vineyard blocks with smaller productions; wines that require greater attention, as there’s more challenge in finding the perfect balance and expression, to harvest at the right time, and to respect what the fruit has to give us. RG | NY is a member of Long Island Sustainable Winegrowing (LISW); not-for-profit organization that provides education and certification for Long Island vineyards in order to reduce the environmental impact.
A term typically reserved for Champagne and Sparkling Wines, non-vintage or simply “NV” on a label indicates a blend of finished wines from different vintages (years of harvest). To make non-vintage Champagne, typically the current year’s harvest (in other words, the current vintage) forms the base of the blend. Finished wines from previous years, called “vins de reserve” are blended in at approximately 10-50% of the total volume in order to achieve the flavor, complexity, body and acidity for the desired house style. A tiny proportion of Champagnes are made from a single vintage.
There are also some very large production still wines that may not claim one particular vintage. This would be at the discretion of the winemaker’s goals for character of the final wine.
A far-reaching peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the city of New York, the Long Island appellation includes The Hamptons and North Fork AVAs. With a maritime climate and conditions not unlike that in Bordeaux, the region excels in the production of Bordeaux varieties, namely Merlot and Cabernet Franc.