Sick of your stupid scabby friends offering you a glass of champagne and filling your vessel with headache-mania 10 euro prosecco? Then get your scabby skates down to Tesco and pay just 8.99 for this lovely 100% Riesling fizz.
Just like Champagne the secondary fermentation in Cremant d'Alsace takes place in bottle. The wine then spends 15 months on lees before disgorgement (the minimum period permissible in Champagne but pretty good vs requirements for other traditional method sparkling wines at this price point like Cava). The amount of time spent on lees is a major determinate in the complexity of the fizz, and all things being equal the longer the better. As the lees ( the dead yeasts which produced the CO2 for the fizz in the first place) break down they release 'autolytic' toasty, biscuity flavours. It is generally held that humans can't taste these autolytic under 24 months, but they can still lend complexity.
This is lovely fresh peach and citrus, but is still clearly Riesling. Serve it as an aperitif alongside smoked salmon. A serious bargain at this price, and probably being sold at or near cost- as champagne closure duty alone plus VAT comes to 6.00.
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