The inspiration for this wine came in 2021 during my family’s annual summer trip to Suttle Lake in the Central Oregon Cascades. My wife implored me to make a low-alcohol sparkling wine to pair with our prized hot lazy days by the water and from there began the journey into what’s possible in winemaking…we started with drinkability, wove our way down the road to skin contact of an aromatic white picked early for acidity, passed through traditional method sparkling for fatness, richness, and texture, and finished with over a year of tirage time. The final step, as with any new creation, was to name it. On an inspired drive into work one day I thought, let’s just call it what is it. Low alcohol sparkling orange wine – and thus, LASOW was born.