Wine Talk: 5 Great Bubblies for Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day presents a unique opportunity for wine lovers. Although there are many excellent options for a Valentine’s wine, there is one slam dunk. And that would be bubbly. Throughout its many iterations Champagne, cava, Prosecco, crémant, domestic sparkling, etc. bubbly brings the sparkle to the party.
That isn’t to say you couldn’t swing and miss with a mediocre bubbly, but superb sparkling wines are abundant. There is no good reason to strike out. These five, across a broad range of price points, are sure to carry the day.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2020. BY RANDY CAPAROSO.
Here in mid-December, the big news out of Lodi wine country is this: the
“Each year since 1988,” you can read in the magazine, “
Wine Spectator has released its Top 100 list, where our editors select the most exciting wines from the thousands we reviewed during the course of the year.”
Klinker Brick’s Grenache Blanc was rated #94 out of the “Top 100.” You may think that this is not so high, but think again: Out of the 100 best wines selected by this magazine in 2020, only 22 of them were grown in the U.S. The rest were from other wine regions around the world. This really means that the world’s most widely read wine magazine believes that Klinker Brick’s latest Grenache Blanc deserves to be ranked as one of the “Top 22” wines out of