This week's wine is Gloria Ferrer's Blanc de Blanc. The website says it costs $25, but it's $20 at Colonial, and on sale this week for $15. An awesome deal....It's a sparkling wine, which I didn't really care for all that much till we visited the vineyard (seen here in the pics), and this one is delish. Read the tasting notes- LOTS of flavors going on there! It's on sale now, so go pick one up and save it for a special day.
Made from 100% Chardonnay, this medium bodied sparkling wine comes alive with crisp flavors of green apple, citrus, and Asian pear. Notes of toast and vanilla result in a clean finish on this exceptional sparkler.
The bouquet of the 2003 Blanc de Blancs is reminiscent of ripe pineapple and toasted biscuit, underscored by a distinctive citrus blossom note. Juicy pear, white chocolate and lemon zest flavors fill the palate, which expand through the wine’s vivacious stream of bubbles and firm structure.
Food Affinities
This Blanc de Blancs is delicious with seafood such as calamari, oysters on the half shell, cracked crab or roasted mussels and with Pan Pacific cuisine such as Thai satay or fresh Vietnamese spring rolls.
This Blanc de Blancs is delicious with seafood such as calamari, oysters on the half shell, cracked crab or roasted mussels and with Pan Pacific cuisine such as Thai satay or fresh Vietnamese spring rolls.
2 comments:
Let's go back to California! The wine somehow tasted a little bit better in the vineyards.
Hey Elizabeth,
Thanks so much for the post. I love having contact with the outside world!
I enjoyed your blog as well. I had no idea you were such a wine connoisseur. I already have my list going so keep the recommendations coming [I'm planning on drinking when I get back to the states...a lot :-) ]
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