A Bali sparkler

We tasted this wine this past weekend, not really knowing what to expect. The first obstacle was opening it: instead of cork and wire cage, there was a plastic cap with a strip that one pulls off. After fiddling around for a while, someone pushed the red button at the top and it open! Apparently the cap can be resealable, but that's another tidbit. The grapes are also different. Hatten makes a number of wines from the table grape Alphonse Lavalee and this grape also features in this wine. There is also something called Chasselas Loulou, which I cannot find in VIVC, except that there is a pink skinned grape called Chasselas Rose Loulou; I wonder if that is the same grape.

The wine itself is a golden yellow, with few streams of medium sized bubbles. The nose was rather reticent, with slight fruit flavours and the palate was very dry with mild fruit flavours, with an initial acid prickle.