Segura Viudas Brut Rose
This sparking wine is a Cava (basically a Spanish Champagne). It is also a Rose, meaning that it is pink instead of clear. I like sparkling Roses because they usually have that extra little component of flavor that most other champagnes or sparkling wines lack. We drank this bottle with our Polenta and Chicken Salad dinner. I think that it went well with the meal and with the football that we are watching.
I always have a hard time describing any taste or smell components in sparkling wines, maybe because I am too overwhelmed and excited about the bubbly factor. Or maybe it is because the sparkling wines that we drink do not have much of a specific taste or smell component. It has a small sweetness to it, but not an overly sweet wine. But I like this wine. I read the back of the bottle, hoping that it would highlight the tastes that I am supposed to be tasting. But it doesn’t. It says: “This wine is fermented in the bottle for a luxurious 1-2 years”.
This wine is also non-vintage, meaning that it does not have a year associated with its grape-age. This is normal for the sparkling wines that we drink, because we cannot afford to drink the vintage sparkling wines. Vintage sparkling wines don’t really start to appear until the $20-$30 per bottle mark. I think that those sparkling wines might have more taste and smell components to them.
I score this wine an 88. A very solid bubbly wine to drink before dinner, during dinner, and after dinner.