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Mumm Napa "Brut Prestige"


Image result for umm Napa "Brut Prestige"Gentle golden hue with aromas of sweet ripe banana, vanilla tropical fruit compote, and stone.

Palate--Ripe pineapple and green melon on the mid palate, nice pin prick bubbles setting your mouth aglow, a nutty hazelnut? finish.

The sparkler from Napa is one of the perennial value sparklers. The wine Spectator had this as their #54 of their annual top 100 wines of 2014. It is crisp, clean, fresh and is simply tasty.  This has been creeping up lately over the years and used to run routinely around $16-18.  Now I see it for as high as $23.  I paid $16 for it and yes, should have grabbed another. 

I will pair this with some sea scallops and who knows what else for dinner. At any rate--raise a glass!

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