Posts Tagged ‘Champagne bubbles’

Moscato, Rap Superstar in a Highball

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Moscato d'Asti Cocktail in a Highball

What is Moscato? Sweet wine for sugar daddies if rapper Drake is to be believed. In Do It Now he raps: "Lobster and shrimp and a glass of moscato, for the girl who's a student and her friend whose a model." Hey! Serving alcohol to minors is illegal people even if it's a relatively low-alcohol wine (i.e. 5% vs. a typical 12% alcohol by volume wine).

What is Moscato? Cont'd

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Posted in Sparkling Wine, Wine Price and Sales, Wine Trends

Tiny Bubbles… In My Wine…

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OK, let's turn Don Ho off (great New Years Eve party tune by the way). Tiny bubbles may make Don happy, but they make oenophiles pretty giddy too. An old adage about Champagne is, the smaller the bubbles, the finer the wine. The tiniest bubbles are the result of long aging, as well as the temperature of the aging cellar. The cooler the wine, the smaller the bubbles. Generally, really tiny bubbles are found in Champagnes known as prestige cuvees. A prestige cuvee is a wine manufacturer's best wine, and it is always given a special name. Dom Perignon, for example, is the prestige cuvee of Moet and Chandon. Click here for further discussion of wine temperature.

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