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Cense Sparkling wine is crisp, fruity and refreshing filled with tiny bubble aromas and flavors of apple, pear and...
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Cook's California Champagne Grand Reserve Sparkling Wine, a white wine made with a special dose of brandy, features...
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Cook's California Champagne Brut White Sparkling Wine is fruity and fresh. This medium-dry white wine features aromas...
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Cook's California Champagne Extra Dry White Sparkling Wine is crisp and complex. This white wine features light...
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Cook's California Champagne Sweet Rose Sparkling Wine is crisp and complex. This medium-sweet blush wine features...
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Cook's California Champagne Spumante White Sparkling Wine features sweet fruit flavors and a smooth finish. Aromas of...
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Snappy and fresh, with layered and steely lemon and orange zest flavors accented by floral vanilla notes. Drink now....
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Crafted in the méthode champenoise style and harvested early, this stunning wine spent a year en tirage before being...
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Aromas are elegantly layered with bread yeast, roses, and raspberries. Flavors echo the aromas with tart red berries...
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Fresh and lively, with appealing lemon and strawberry flavors that finish on a steely note. Drink now. 50,000 cases...
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Toasty lemon notes with a slight saline edge. Clean and mineral palate with some autolytic character.
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Smooth and luxurious, this rich and balanced wine layers persimmon and ginger over white cherry and raspberry for a...
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Flinty nose, butter, yellow stone fruit, toasted bread. Very refreshing on the palate with fine knit mousse. Very...
Champagne Blend United States California 750ml
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.