With a name like Supernova, you might anticipate an explosion of power and brightness – you’d be correct! Winemaker Weston Eidson made a name for himself with his Napa Valley-based Silver Ghost Cellars and Montagu wines, having trained under Jason Moore (of Modus Operandi) and Russell Bevan (you know the guy) to learn the ropes for crafting top-notch pinot noir, chardonnay, and cabernet sauvignon in his early years. Yet, bubbles remained top of mind and heart for Weston – so, finally, just a few years ago, he blasted through to the next level of his profession with the creation of Supernova!

Weston sources the majority of the fruit for this wine from the upper stretches of Manchester Ridge, a coastal mountain vineyard with sweeping views of the northern Sonoma Coast. At 2,000 feet elevation, pinot noir and chardonnay vines rest above the coastal fog line while appreciating the many benefits of the cool, Pacific climate, and also experiencing the summer’s beating sunshine, helping to grow vibrantly, three-dimensional flavors in the grapes. The final Champagne-reminiscent blend is 50-50 chardonnay-pinot noir, with a touch of pinot meunier, that gets cluster-pressed and co-fermented together to craft a subdued salmon-colored rosé. It’s bone dry and fresh and is known to effortlessly please a crowd. It’s everything you could dream of in an under-$20 bubbly marvel…and sincerely a favorite to open any day of the week!

The initial explosion of flavor bursts with bright flavors of blood orange, summer strawberries, watermelon rind, and red apples, with additional notes of citrus and pulled saltwater taffy for something equally mind-blowing and mouth-watering. This wine is something else, and I can’t get enough of it (literally…I always end up ordering a silly-large amount when we get some in and going through it in a sillier amount of time – aka, fast). In this case, I would strongly recommend you load up your wine fridge with this juicy, fresh, unimaginably quaffable sparkling rosé to drink throughout the fall, and all the way into next summer! A bubbly this good simply can’t be contained to just one season – just as you’ll find difficulty in containing yourself to just one bottle at a time of this out-of-this-world sparkler!