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- by Gretchen, on Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:05am PDT
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Friday, 10 July 2009
Wine Find: NV Zardetto Prosecco Brut, Veneto, Italy
($13)
Prosecco may be poor man's Champagne, but if you
love a budget-friendly bubbly, the Zardetto is your bottle.
Made from the Prosecco grape, it's fresh, fragrant, crisp, and
delicious before dinner or in cocktails (stay tuned tomorrow for a
rockin recipe!)
Find it: This wine is nationally distributed
and easily available. Call your wine store to see if they have it
or
Search wine stores around the U.S.
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prices
I’ve had this wine! Rate it 1-5 stars and hit the comments with
your notes.
Hot Dish: Casino Imperial
Prosecco is the base wine for the Bellini
(it's not bad in a Kir
Royale either), but you can use it to mix up some other
smokin' cocktails, like this one from Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli,
bar manager for Craigie on Main in Cambridge,
Mass., where they're really serious about
libations.
Casino Imperial
Glass: Champagne Flute
Fill Champagne flute with sparkling wine
Add Herbsaint-soaked sugar cube
Float ¾ oz. LeCompte 5 yr Calvados
Finish with a lemon twist
I tried this drink! Rate it.
Vinoculture: Prosecco in a Can...Starring Paris
Hilton
File this one under "puh-leeze": A couple of
years ago,
Rich Prosecco hired Paris Hilton as its spokesbubblehead.
Wearing nothing but gold paint in the ads, Paris
hawked the canned Prosecco (which, we should add, isn't
actually from Italy) to pretty much everyone's dismay.
What say you? Should Paris just keep her clothes on already, or
would you try it...just because?
Go Vino: Valdobbiadene
Old. by senza_nick.
Italy's Valdobbiadene region is the main home to Prosecco
(and don't forget how to spell "Valdobbiadene,"
because there just might be a pop quiz later). We found some
other photos on flickr that show the region's green
lushness and hills better, but this one just tugs at you,
doesn't it?
Rate this photo 1-5 stars and leave a comment if you've been to
Valdobbiadene.
Freebie Friday: Toasted Head Moleskine Notebook
Ok, thumbs off the Smartphone: time to look
really smart with today's Freebie Friday
giveaway, a Moleskine notebook with the
Toasted Head winery logo on the
front. Never heard of Moleskine? It's a brand, but also sort of
a cult. (Read more on
Stuff White People Like.) These days you might find wine geeks
Twittering instead of hand-writing their tasting notes, but the
Moleskine is the genuine article if you want to look super
creative.
Enter to win the notebook--just leave a comment on the site and
tell us if you're nerdy enough to take wine notes--and how you
usually do it.
Read the contest rules (short version: one entry per person,
must be 21 or older and have a U.S. mailing address).
Congratulations to Gabriel of Winfield, Kansas, winner of the
ChillinJoy!
Web find of the week:
The Stewie grape stamping, based on the original.
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