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Showing posts with label Sparkling Wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sparkling Wine. Show all posts
Monday, October 28, 2024

Effervescence Unleashed: Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot and the Breathless Brut

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In order to help kickoff the BevFluence Effervescence Unleashed program I participated in a book-sparkling wine collaboration between Rebec...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Cocktails with the FIOL Prosecco D.O.C. Extra Dry NV

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Recently, we've been thinking of sparkling wine cocktails and gratuitously we received the FIOL Prosecco Extra Dry NV ($19) to get us s...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Regenerative Rosé from Domaine Bousquet

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This year we have received many samples from Domaine Bousquet and have covered the winery in the Wines with Altitude series based on the f...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Catalan Wines USA Master Class -- D.O. Cava

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There was plenty of sparkling wine on display during the  Catalan Wines USA  Master Class & Wine Tasting last month.  For an overview of...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Wines with Altitude: Domaine Bousquet from Gualtallary, Argentina

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Imagine a 240 hectare wine estate located in the Andes foothills at an altitude of 4,000 feet above sea level.  The highest peaks in Califor...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Grape Spotlight: Oltrepò Pavese DOC Pinot Nero and Others

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Lombardy is one of Italy's largest and most populous regions and is located in the north-central part of the country. It consists of fiv...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Grape Spotlight: AOP Limoux Blanquette de Limoux Mauzac Blanc

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Blanquette de Limoux is considered to be the first sparkling white wine produced in France and it was created long before the Champagne regi...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Sparkling Rosé Prosecco from Ca' di Prata Prosecco

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In November 2020, the Prosecco Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) consortium allowed sparkling rosé wines to bear the DOC designatio...
Friday, January 8, 2021

Leaving 2020 behind with a duo of Vilarnau Brut Cava

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"Members of Spainish nobility, the Vilarnau family settled in this special place that is Penedés in the 12th century. Vilarnau is a con...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Missouri Wine: Reviving American Heritage Grapes at Vox Vineyards

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Albania, America, Brilliant, Carman, Cloeta, Delicatessen, Favorite, Lenoir, Lomanto, Marguerite, Muench, Wetumka These are winegrapes t...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Q&A with Brut Force Author Peter Stafford-Bow

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Peter Stafford-Bow knows satire. And he knows the machinations of most facets in the wine trade. These truths are self evident in the auth...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Lucas & Lewellen Brut Sparkling Wine 2016 Santa Barbara County

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Lucas & Lewellen is one of the more prolific wineries in Santa Barbara County as evident by their large wine portfolio and popular So...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Lucien Albrecht Crémant d’Alsace - Offering Both Quality and Value

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Americans have have a hard time relating to historical significance as our country is not even 250 years old with the Columbus voyage just...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

New Years with Vilarnau Brut Reserva Cava

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In 2017 Catalonia independence was a dominant topic in European news, but the province is also a notable wine region particularly with Pen...
Friday, December 22, 2017

New Years with Prosecco & Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG Sparking Wine

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What is Prosecco? Is it a region, a wine, or a grape variety? Before 2009 this term described all three; but in that year several reforms we...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Is the Public Ready for Canned Wine?

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During last week's U.S. Wine & Beverage Industry Expo (USBevX), wine packaged in cans was noticeably present at the event's tra...