What are the benefits of joining a Wine Club besides better pricing, supporting a winery or winemaker you love and club parties? How about member-only allocations? Wine that the public may get their hands on…or not. This is a one-bottle post on one of those special bottles: the first edition of a Brut Rose sparkling wine from winemaker Mitch Cosentino, and it’s already an award-winner! Here was the teaser:
A SURPRISE ALLOCATION JUST FOR YOU!
Award-Winning Brut Rosé is available for a limited-time to our Members and Private Clients in this special allocation.
There has been a lot of buzz about my new sparkling wine so thought I would share some updates. The pureCru Brut Rosé Cuvee XXI sparkling wine was made as a proof of concept and has been undergoing testing in all forms of the wine marketplace, where it is now proving to be extremely well received. I am honored to share that my first pureCru sparkling wine release took home “Best of Class”, a “Gold Medal”, and “98 Points” at the recent Los Angeles International Wine Competition.
Today, the first of its kind, pureCru Brut Rosé, will be offered as a special allocation to our members and private clients. We only made 200 cases of this limited-release non vintage sparkling and our members always get first-access….Cheers! Mitch.
Eve’s Tasting Notes
We joined Mitch’s club a year or so ago, happy to get our hands on any whites or reds they send our way. This is not only the first Rose of his for us to try, it’s also the first sparkling. Color me happy, and here goes:
The back label of the bottle revealed that the wine had 13.2% alcohol and is a Rosé of Sangiovese. We had Mitch’s Sangiovese before and had liked it too.
The color in itself was just lovely, and darker than what most people would expect; it was a deep raspberry with gold that especially dazzled as the bubbles raced to the top of the champagne flute that held my sample.
On the nose (once I poured my sample into a red wine glass to catch the aromas better than in a flute) I was excited to find stewed red fruits – lots of raspberry, white fleshy peach, pink grapefruit, cherries, biscuit, stems, wet gravel and a tiny hint of sea air.
When I tasted the wine I found an abundance of Red Delicious apple right at the start, then came waves of that same raspberry I was promised from the color and aroma, ripe Rainier cherries, red cherries and black cherries – wow, just a bushel of cherries – and the back palate revealed that same biscuit but this time with a little bit of Brie cheese during the finish. It was beautifully balanced.
What fun this would be in a pairing! I’m thinking of a salad with fruit and cheese, a rare sous vide steak with a cherry reduction sauce, Pork Wellington, dark chocolate (maybe even chocolate covered cherries) or with a strawberry cheesecake. Heck, this wine would be great with just plain popcorn! I was going to have it with a mildly spiced Jambalaya myself…in about 15 minutes!
Sounds good to you? Go to the website to see if the wine is now available to the public, or join the club! I got four bottles, err, now only three! I predict my bottles will all be gone by the end of the summer!
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Eve Bushman has a Level Two Intermediate Certification from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET), a “certification in first globally-recognized course” as an American Wine Specialist ® from the North American Sommelier Association (NASA), Level 1 Sake Award from WSET, was the subject of a 60-minute Wine Immersion video (over 16k views), authored “Wine Etiquette for Everyone” and has served as a judge for the Long Beach Grand Cru and the Global Wine Awards. You can email Eve@EveWine101.com to ask a question about wine or spirits
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