A popular New Year’s Resolution is to get your personal budget under control. Why not start a little early and begin your resolution while celebrating? On the market today, there are many great bottles of bubbly that are around $20.00 or less. Here is a list of sparkling wines hailing from wine growing regions from France to California:
Roederer Estate Brut (starting at $20) from California
Gloria Ferrer Sonoma Brut (starting at $13) from California
Freixenet Cordon Negro Extra Dry (starting at $9) from Spain
Lucien Albrecht Cremant d’Alsace Brut (starting at $16) from France
Nino Franco Rustico (starting at $12) from Italy
Naveran Brut Cava 2010 (starting at $13) from Spain
Mionetto Prosecco Brut (starting at $10) from Italy
Segura Viudas Brut Reserva (starting at $7) from Spain
Korbel Brut (starting at $10) from California
Gruet Brut Rosé (starting at $16) from New Mexico
*list provided by Shine on Yahoo.com
To stretch these bottles a little further while making them more festive, set up a display of mixers in pretty bottles to create specialty bellinis and champagne cocktails. At a recent event of ours, we used wintery flavors like mandarin orange and cranberry to dress up basic sparkling wine. Interesting garnishes, like rock candy sticks or clementine sections takes the celebration one step further.
White Sparkling Cosmopolitan
2 oz sparkling wine
1 oz citron vodka
1/2 oz cointreau
splash of white or traditional cranberry juice
serve in champagne glass and garnish with a fresh cranberry skewer
Here’s to a Happy & Healthy 2013 from your friends at Butler’s Pantry!!!!!