Fancy Pants Prosecco

Last weekend was a busy and productive kitchen weekend. It was awesome. On Saturday we spent the day making sausages, we made 4 different types: maple bacon, apple sage, sun-dried tomato with mozzarella and basil, and tex-mex chili style. The first two turned out wonderfully, the second two were great with respect to flavours, but the texture needs a bit of tweeking. Practice will make perfect! On Sunday we spent the day making we're-done-with-winter cupcakes (aka Screw Winter Cupcakes). It felt really good to be so productive and to have so much to show for ourselves at the end of the weekend. 

In other exciting news, our amazing photographer got our wedding featured online with Today's Bride. We found that out yesterday. So Champagne Thursday was definitely a bubbly celebration, we even broke out the fancy glasses. 

Tyson has started actually EATING the corks,
so that phase of his life is over. Now he just
gets to break them in half and then we quickly
take it away. Silly hound.

March 10, 2016

This week we celebrated with a lovely bottle from Italy: Canella Prosecco Superiore, 2014. When I first smelled it in the glass, I thought I got a kind of mineral or vitamin scent, but after I tasted it and tried to smell that again, I wasn't able to. After our first sip we both said "Well, that's nice!", so that's a good start!

We found this one to have a sweet flavour, and a sweet aftertaste but a dry finish. So it dried out our mouths a little like you'd expect with a dry bubbly, but it still tasted sweet... It was an odd but pleasurable experience. It wasn't syrupy either, which is good.

It's got a very creamy mouth-feel, lots of smooth, tiny bubbles make it almost explode in your mouth. It's a very pale straw colour, almost colourless. It's difficult to see in this picture, but there is a hint of gold there, I promise. 

When we were trying to identify the flavour of the sweet, I struggled. Shane said that it reminded him of the fig jam we've had recently. I can get on board with that, but more the jam side than the fig side...

Verdict: In the end, we both really liked it and would have it again.  

That's all for us today. Spring is springing away here, and the weather is supposed to be mild this weekend, so I expect this weekend will be filled with yard work. Another productive one for the books, fingers crossed.

~S

• Brand: Canella by Empson Can, Inc.
• Type of Grape: Glera
• Sweetness: 12g/L
• Price: $19.95
• Tasting Notes: Light bodied, sweeter flavour, reminiscent of fig jam. Would pair nicely with a tangy goat's cheese and prosciutto.