Posts Tagged ‘California sparkling wine’
Glee Euphoria California Sparkling Wine Blanc de Noir
For reasons I don’t understand, the producer of this sparkling wine, Sapphire Hill, decided to hide behind the Glee moniker. There is nothing on the bottle to link Glee and Sapphire Hill, but it was easy enough to locate them. Sapphire Hill Winery, a family-run boutique winery, has been operating in Sonoma County since 1989.…
Read MoreBuena Vista La Victoire Champagne
There are a number of French Champagne producers who have operations in California, such as Roederer (whose California wine I prefer over the French, and it’s half the price). But here’s a twist: a California winery with a genuine French champagne. And this isn’t just any winery; Buena Vista is the second oldest in the…
Read MoreThe Back Half Revolution Of California Sparkling Wine
Domaine Chandon of Yountville-Napa Valley The Moët & Chandon Grandes Marque post 1960’s saw immense growth through diversification, and acquisitions of new distribution sales: Marie Brizard liqueurs, Glenmorangie Single Malt Scotch, and of course venturing into the New World territories. The splashiest New World winery opening happened in Yountville-Napa Valley at the Domaine Chandon Napa…
Read MoreA Journey Of Discovery – Renardat-Fache
The day began with a visit to my new neighborhood Farmers Market down the street. As a recluse, I rarely go out to interact socially, but this is an unseasonably bright invigorating late winter weekend morning, I was hungry and motivated. After living for 9 years in a residential neighborhood (elementary schools around the corner),…
Read MoreKalin Cellars – The Story Of Excellence
“Produce No Wine With Less Character than Yourself” – The Kalin Credo Kalin Cellars is a winery in California’s bedroom community of Novato, Marin County just north of San Francisco. In 1986, when I first learned of Terrance Leighton’s Kalin Cellars winery recommended by the Winewrights newsletter (an analogue newsletter from postal days when deliveries…
Read More2010 Extra Brut En Tirage California Sparkling Wine
Right from the world famous Napa Valley in California USA comes this 2010 En Tirage Extra Brut Blanc de Blanc Carneros Sparkling Wine. Napa Valley is America’s most famous wine region, with varied geographical territory running about 20 miles long from the San Francisco Bay northward to the foot of Mount St. Helena. Don Baumhefner started the wine program…
Read MoreFirst Champagne Bar for St Louis, USA
Right next to the Fabulous Fox theatre in St Louis, a new Champagne bar has opened to the public named Curtain Call. The bar is a classically styled lounge; a Byzantine-inspired space that recalls the Eastern architecture of the Fabulous Fox. Graceful arches and tile patterns, massive gold palm trees and a draped ceiling are some of the unique features that make Curtain Call the…
Read MoreMore California Winemakers Experimenting with Sparkling Wine
The Californian sparkling wine industry has long been dominated by big Champagne brands who bought up land and brought along their expertise – such as Mumm Napa, Roederer and Domaine Chandon. The expertise, money and equipment from these houses was much-needed to make sparkling wine, an intimidating market to enter. However, recently it seems California…
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