Jenise
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Joined: 3/20/2013 From: The Pacific Northest Westest Status: offline
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Stunners? Surprises me to hear based on the few we've had in the last 15 years--it is, btw, a sentimental favorite because my husband and I drank quite a bit of it when we first met so we keep going back to it. The bubbles are larger and less persistent, and the flavors more simplistically opulent--all in all more mass market style. A superb California producer of bubbles is Flying Goat winery who are located in the same ghetto as Loring, Arcadian and others in Lompoc, California. They're just not commonly available at retail. Loved, just loved, some from a newish California producer called Knot--we went through two cases over the last three or four years of their Halyard. However that was a BdB--I'm sure they also made a BdN but I never got to try it. Does anyone know if they're still in business? Given the quality of what we had, and it was just their NV, and the buzz I heard from friends in Napa I thought they'd go big but I've never seen another bottle.
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