Variety: Champagne
Region: France
Bottled: Union Aubiose, Bar-sur-Seine, France
Country: France
Year: Unlabeled
Price: $35 online at Walmart
Winery Review:Bright and expressive, this delightful sparkling wine opens with aromas of fresh white flowers, followed by an elegant fruit-forward palate with a pleasant mousse and bracing acidity-a true hallmark of excellent Champagne. Notes of brioche and freshly baked bread mark the lengthy finish. (From the bottle)
Wine Folly: pg. 94, champagne's common tasting notes are citrus, yellow apple, cream, almond, and toast. Pairs best with anything fried or salty (not the cake that we paired it with)
My Review: I was at the beach this week for a friend's birthday, and her parents got champagne for the evening to go with the cake. This was a very dry wine; the name did not lie. We had it with a very sweet trifle cake (angel food cake with vanilla custard). The wine was very sour apple tasting, and the cake made the wine less sweet and dry. At first, before the cake, it was a sweet wine, but the sweetness of the custard in the cake cut the sweetness of the wine, and I got a lot more green apple or pear flavors. Maybe some citrus (grapefruit or lemon) too.
The birthday girl's review: Cocktails were consumed with dinner, so the birthday girl was already rather tipsy. But she wanted to contribute to my wine review. She got "notes of...bubbles".
And, when she took a sip, "it made her go like this" *see photo*
Needless to say, it is a very dry wine and can cause you to scrunch your nose, apparently.
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