Your favorite sparkling wine: Champagne, or "other?"
Among the myriad perils faced by beginning wine drinkers is the presumption that sparkling wine is only Champagne. In our latest Young Winos webisode, Chelsea and I taste through three European sparkling wines from outside of France: an Italian Prosecco, a Spanish Cava, and a German Sekt. Each was tasty, festive, and intoxicating. Click here to watch!
What's your favorite sparkling wine? And what's the best value you've ever found in a sparkling wine? (Can you beat the Aria for methode traditionelle, or the Schloss Biebrich for overall QPR?)
What's your favorite sparkling wine? And what's the best value you've ever found in a sparkling wine? (Can you beat the Aria for methode traditionelle, or the Schloss Biebrich for overall QPR?)
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Permalink Reply by Lance Paterson on -
Oddly enough, both taste and value winner goes back to France - but NOT Champagne. Personally love a good Cremant de Bourgogne like Jaillance. Also love Prosecco and Cava.
There are - so help me - even some very decent English sparkles these days.
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Permalink Reply by Ken Hoffman on -
Paranga out of Australia makes a Sparkling Shiraz that is out of this world!
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Permalink Reply by Darby Higgs on
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Definitely an Australian Sparkling Red, made from Shiraz or Durif. Anderson's Winery at Rutherglen is a very good brand.
For more info on Sparkling reds see http://australian-nz-wine.suite101.com/article.cfm/sparkling_red_wine
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Permalink Reply by Don Riedthaler on -
Sekt, best value out there for German Riesling Sparkling...But, make sure you do your homework - Barth and Solter make some of the best readily available German Sekt made in the traditional method.
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Permalink Reply by Tonya Russ Price on -
I love it all! I just had a sparkling Vouvray from Chateau Moncontour last week, it was sheer delight. It made me want to blow off work that day. If I had unlimited funds, it would be Schramsberg Rose, forever. I also really dig Domaine Carneros, but my pocketbook likes me to drink $12.99 Prosecco, I also like bubbles from the Loire Valley, all this typing makes me thirsty. Hell, I can't stop there, I might as well agree with Cava too. I really do love it all.
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