Although I have encountered the
Californian sparkling wines of Schramsberg many years ago, I have not thought
about blogging on them till I revisited them in the form of the above wine last
month. Schramsberg was founded when Jacob Schram bought a mountainside in Napa
Valley to plant vines in 1862. Initially it produced still wines, but when the
Davies bought the property in 1965, they started another direction for the
estate, to produce top American sparkling wines. Now Schramsberg is a top name
for Californian sparkling wine, with the Mirabelle brut (above) garnering 90
points from both Wine Spectator and Robert Parker in October 2012. A nice straw
gold with many streams of fine bubbles, there was a nice crisp nose with acid
and some fruity notes. The acid prickle on entry gives way to a slightly fruity
acid palate, maintaining a good acid backbone all the way through to the finish.
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