This set of weeks saw: golfing, gardening, a wine tour (oops), a bachelorette party, and an anniversary of home-ownership! Busy busy, but let's get to it!
May 18, 2017
This week we picked up a Crémant de Loire by Bouvet. On popping the top, Shane just got a "sweet wine" scent. It was significantly drier than it smelled.
It had a nice sharp bubbly mouthfeel, and was a sort of sour-tart flavour. Shane thought he got a slight anise after flavour, but I didn't. We weren't picking up on too much on the nose, other than a touch sweet, but it wasn't any particular type of sweet either (like fruity sweet vs. candy sweet).
We quite liked it, but it didn't really have much going on. Just a sour sparkling wine.
May 25, 2017
We picked up a bottle of a local winery's bubbly this week: Casa Dea's 2016 Dea's Cuvée. Shane spilled this one on popping the stop, but then it had a green apple scent. In the glass, it was super bubbly, and very pale in colour.
Shane thought this one tasted like Welches Grape Juice, and I thought that it had a lot of residual sugar in the after-taste. We also thought we might have been getting a bit of an apricot flavour? Shane stated: tart, apples, grape juice as the flavours he was getting.
We really liked this one, it was quite lovely. One thing we did note at the end was that it was a touch burpy. We also thought it had a very lingering acidic aftertaste, which wasn't so nice, but at the time of drinking, we liked it.
June 1, 2017
This was the first Champagne Thursday of the Fifth Year in Morven, so we decided this was a medium-special occasion, and splurged for the Kim Crawford 2012 Fizz ($30).
Upon popping, we were shocked at how bubbly it was, you could hear all the bubbles in the bottle as soon as you popped the cork. Not much scent off the bottle, other than "wine". In the glass, I thought it smelled like stale vitamins, where Shane thought it had a weird sweet-sour taste. It did get a little better into the third glass (but what doesn't?), so first impressions aren't everything...
We were conflicted on this one. It was a nice enough bottle, I guess, but it wasn't a $30 bottle. We thought it was a nice $15 bottle that we got tricked into paying $30 for. We wouldn't buy it again, but would drink it again if it was served to us.
That's it for this post, stay tuned, there's still lots in the works!
~S&S
May 18, 2017
May 25, 2017
May 18, 2017
This week we picked up a Crémant de Loire by Bouvet. On popping the top, Shane just got a "sweet wine" scent. It was significantly drier than it smelled.
It had a nice sharp bubbly mouthfeel, and was a sort of sour-tart flavour. Shane thought he got a slight anise after flavour, but I didn't. We weren't picking up on too much on the nose, other than a touch sweet, but it wasn't any particular type of sweet either (like fruity sweet vs. candy sweet).
We quite liked it, but it didn't really have much going on. Just a sour sparkling wine.
May 25, 2017
We picked up a bottle of a local winery's bubbly this week: Casa Dea's 2016 Dea's Cuvée. Shane spilled this one on popping the stop, but then it had a green apple scent. In the glass, it was super bubbly, and very pale in colour.
Shane thought this one tasted like Welches Grape Juice, and I thought that it had a lot of residual sugar in the after-taste. We also thought we might have been getting a bit of an apricot flavour? Shane stated: tart, apples, grape juice as the flavours he was getting.
We really liked this one, it was quite lovely. One thing we did note at the end was that it was a touch burpy. We also thought it had a very lingering acidic aftertaste, which wasn't so nice, but at the time of drinking, we liked it.
June 1, 2017
This was the first Champagne Thursday of the Fifth Year in Morven, so we decided this was a medium-special occasion, and splurged for the Kim Crawford 2012 Fizz ($30).
Upon popping, we were shocked at how bubbly it was, you could hear all the bubbles in the bottle as soon as you popped the cork. Not much scent off the bottle, other than "wine". In the glass, I thought it smelled like stale vitamins, where Shane thought it had a weird sweet-sour taste. It did get a little better into the third glass (but what doesn't?), so first impressions aren't everything...
We were conflicted on this one. It was a nice enough bottle, I guess, but it wasn't a $30 bottle. We thought it was a nice $15 bottle that we got tricked into paying $30 for. We wouldn't buy it again, but would drink it again if it was served to us.
That's it for this post, stay tuned, there's still lots in the works!
~S&S
May 18, 2017
- Brand: Bouvet
- Type of Grape: Chenin Blanc?
- Sweetness: 12g/L
- Price: $18.95
- Tasting Notes: A nicely tart-sour bubbly, hints at anise. Would pair nicely with a strong caesar salad.
- Brand: Casa Dea
- Type of Grape: Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
- Sweetness: Not sure, wasn't as sweet as their 2015 though (which was 28g/L)
- Price: $18.95 (note: this is for the 2015 bottle)
- Tasting Notes: Nice bubbles, grape juice flavour, scents of green apples. Would pair nicely with a hot afternoon in the sunshine.
June 1, 2017
- Brand: Kim Crawford
- Type of Grape: Pinot Noir and Chardonnay
- Sweetness: 2g/L
- Price: $29.95
- Tasting Notes: Sour mineral taste, was an alright bubbly. Would pair with bbq shrimp.
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