Winemaker Notes
This wine pairs beautifully with blueberry or banana pancakes, Puget Sound oysters, and smoked salmon with or without the bagel.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
The label on this wine showcases Sokol Blosser’s long-time support of the Prescott Western Bluebird Recovery Project to preserve breeding habitat for the native bird. Pouring a hue, the bright straw-colored 2021 Bluebird Cuvee Brut Sparkling Wine is fresh with aromas of white peach, citrus blossoms, and fresh pastry dough. Medium-bodied, it offers candied green apple fruit up front and tapers to fresh acidity, a dry finish.
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James Suckling
Attractive green apples, lemon pith, white flowers and crushed stone. Fresh and crispy with a medium body and fine bubbles. Smooth and delicate.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
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