Category: Sparkling Wine
Varietal: Brachetto
Region: Italy-Piedmont-Brachetto d'Acqui
Producer: Castello Banfi
A wine snob I am not. However, once you've had this sparkling wine, you could, from that point on, reject all others because of how good it is. My cousin and I were at a wine tasting/fundraiser last year, and they supplied us with ranking cards. This was clearly the crowd favorite. It possesses all that's good about bubbly--fruity, light, carbonated, etc.
Here's their description:
On its own Rosa Regale is an elegant aperitif. Its fruity character beguiles the heat of spicy Asian and Latino fare, and its gentle acidity is an ideal foil to the piquant richness of goat cheese, especially in a spring mix salad with almonds and cranberries. Quiches, glazed hams, beets, vichyssoise, gazpacho, chowders and even the myriad of flavors at Thanksgiving dinner, all traditionally challenging wine matches, are enchanted by Rosa Regale. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, trifles and hazelnut tortes are all elevated by this frothy wine.
It's a bit on the pricey side: about $27. I am willing to overlook that for special occasions, however :)
4 comments:
Try it with dark chocolate! I had it at a wine tasting and they had us taste it by itself, and then after eating a bit of dark chocolate. It was even more amazing, it that's possible!
I am all over this!
I have a bottle of my own favorite rose sparkling wine hiding under my bed (!) Chandon California Rose. I got it on sale at the grocery store and am saving it for a special occasion, or rainy day ;)
This stuff is good, but if you want something that's still delicious and fun, try a sparkling shiraz. I have had bottles around $10 that were awesome. Down here I have to go to Surdyks or Haskell's to find it, though.
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