*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Natural Wine Merchants. I have been all about the bubbles in the last couple of weeks. It must be the holidays. Picture me singing, totally off-key because I’m pretty tone deaf: “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. .” Yes indeed, I have the holidays [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports. When I think of sparkling wine from Italy, my mind goes immediately to Prosecco. I’m not actually sure that I’ve had sparkling wine from Italy made from other grapes before this bottle, so I was interested to give it a try. The Valdo Nerello [...]
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This is one of those wines I talked about last week that landed me in boring wine land. Boring wine land seems to me the wino’s equivalent of purgatory—being stuck drinking wines that make you think “meh” instead of making you want to dive into the glass and swim around or at least appreciate the [...]
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Especially after a long hot horseback ride in the Tennessee Mountains! On our recent vacation, this bottle met my criteria of being low alcohol and supposedly having a cork I could remove without a corkscrew. Well, that last bit was TOTALLY wrong, but the rest worked out! I removed the foil from the bottle only [...]
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As we know from some past WBWs, the world is full of Bubbly that is not Champagne. One of my favorites for value and quality is Prosseco from Italy. I also love it for its low alcohol content. This bottle was a Mionetto Valdobbiadene Prosseco Brut. I picked it up at MV Wine and Spirits [...]
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