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Countdown to New Year’s Eve: American Fizz

Becky Sue Epstein
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American…Champagne? Sparkling Wine? Each week until the end of the year we’ll take a look at different types of sparkling wines -- Champagne included, of course -- so you’ll be able to make a great choice for your New Year’s Eve occasion. Rather than an exhaustive explanation of champagnes and

2011 StickyBeak Chardonnay

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
The aromas of apples and pears baking in a pie waft up from the glass. This is pillow-soft on the palate. All the flavors are just as soft, showing baked fruit, cantaloupe, butter and a bit of vanilla. The finish lingers quite a while. Drink with fried catfish and coleslaw.

2011 Rodney Strong Chardonnay

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Butter, vanilla, and apples show on the nose. Butter, toast, and apple, in that order, show on the palate. Some lime shows on the finish. Drink with baked chicken and peaches. Recommended. 86 points. WHO: Rodney Strong WHAT: Chardonnay WHERE:  California, Sonoma County WHEN: 2011 HOW MUCH: $17

2012 La Rochelle Pinot Meunier

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Pinot candy. On the nose this would be picked, blind, as a Pinot Noir, with cherry pits, cola, a touch of black earth, and a very pretty floral background of rosewater. Cherries and plum lead on the palate, followed by black tea. Everything then takes an interesting candied turn, with

2009 La Rochelle Pinot Noir

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
The nose shows black cherries, strawberries, and cream soda. The palate has red fruit that shifts, attack to finish, from sweet to biting, leading with strawberry, shifting to rhubarb, and ending with unsweetened cranberry. An underlying earth and spice, cinnamon and allspice, give it body and depth. Drink with rabbit