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Shauna Rosenblum and her father Ken Rosenblum at Rock Wall Wine Company in Alameda. Photo: courtesy Rock Wall Wine Co.
As a young winemaker in the East Bay, Shauna Rosenblum held no Champagne envy and didn’t aspire to crafting award winning bubbly. But when she and her girlfriends downed several bottles of sparkling wine during an “America’s Top Model” watch party, she declared that she could create bubbles as drinkable as the empties on the table.
Spontaneity is a way of life at the Rock Wall Wine Company, which is housed a former hangar at the Alameda Naval Air Station. In 2009, Rosenblum made 100 cases of sparkling Blanc de Blanc on the island. Now she makes 2,000 cases annually and warns everyone to buy early before it sells out. Ever the iconoclast, she added a dash of muscat canelli to the chardonnay in the 2014 vintage.
“That blend was an accident. We received some under-ripe muscat canelli grapes, so I co-fermented them with chardonnay, not a normal practice,” said Rosenblum.
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