Pale straw-yellow with lots of small bubbles.
Smell
Apples, pears, acacia, peaches and citrus blossoms.
Palate
Off-dry and mildly acid with light body & matching alcohol. The flavours are primarily apple and pear, with some citrus sneaking in & the group of flavours lingering for some time.
Tale
The Prosecco grape, which the Italians insist should be called Glera, has been growing in the King Valley for more than 15 years and it is this history that local producers claim protects their rights to call their wines Prosecco, not Glera.
As for the Brown Brothers winery, the vines were first planted in the later half of the 19th century. In the first half of the 20th century the winery was already popular with merchants in Melbourne and as far afield as London, however this is also when Italian immigrant tobacco farmers joined the loyal customer base. Decades later when the local tobacco industry collapsed, Brown Brothers were largely responsible for helping the Italian tobacco growers transition into grape growers, and in many cases, become winemakers themselves.
This is a nice sparkling wine, but it's not going to wow guests. Then again, at this price, it doesn't need to be amazing to be good value! For some reason I thought this was a slightly disappointing $20 bottle of fizz - now realising it's almost half that price, I'm very happy with the purchase.
Price: $12
Quality: ☆☆☆
Value: ☆☆☆☆
www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_366852
www.brownbrothers.com.au/products/13533-prosecco
No comments:
Post a Comment