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12 Best Sparkling Wines to Drink This Summer

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Prosecco Rosé "Jeio", Bisol, Valdobbiadene, Veneto, IT, 2019


James Suckling: 91 Points


Tasting Notes: Nicely balanced, with lightly sweet red cherries and some peach-skin and floral notes. Playful, mouth-filling froth and clean, compact fruit on the finish.


$19.95  $16.95


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Sparkling "Brut", Graham Beck, Western Cape, ZA, NV


Robert Parker: 90 Points


Tasting Notes: The Non-Vintage Brut has pretty apricot and mango scents that are lively and vivacious. The palate is lively on the entry with crisp acidity, citrus peel on the entry with a terse but very focused finish. This is one of the best showings for Pieter Ferreira's sparkler.


$21.95  $19.95


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Prosecco Rosé "Jeio", Bisol, Valdobbiadene, Veneto, IT, 2019


James Suckling: 91 Points


Tasting Notes: Nicely balanced, with lightly sweet red cherries and some peach-skin and floral notes. Playful, mouth-filling froth and clean, compact fruit on the finish.


$19.95  $16.95


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Sparkling "Brut", Graham Beck, Western Cape, ZA, NV


Robert Parker: 90 Points


Tasting Notes: The Non-Vintage Brut has pretty apricot and mango scents that are lively and vivacious. The palate is lively on the entry with crisp acidity, citrus peel on the entry with a terse but very focused finish. This is one of the best showings for Pieter Ferreira's sparkler.


$21.95  $19.95


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Domaine Carneros "Brut", Taittinger, Napa Valley, CA


Wine Enthusiast: 93 Points


Tasting Notes: Blending 53% Pinot Noir, 44% Chardonnay and 3% Pinot Gris into a cohesive whole, this sparkler is aged nearly four years. Effusively fruity and balanced in acidity, it offers rich, rounded notes of pear, green apple and melon that contrast against a bite of cookie.


$38.95  $32.95


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Sparkling "étoile Brut", Domaine Chandon, CA, NV


Decanter: 95 Points


Tasting Notes: Flinty nose, butter, yellow stone fruit, toasted bread. Very refreshing on the palate with fine knit mousse. Very classy. One for the long haul.


$45.95  $42.95


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Champagne "Grand Reserve", Gosset, FR, NV


Wine Spectator: 93 Points


Tasting Notes: A tightly knit Champagne, backed by racy acidity, this is fresh and harmonious, with a finely detailed mousse and a delicate range of black raspberry, pickled ginger and chalk flavors, offering a touch of salted almond that echoes on the finish.


$48.95  $44.95


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Champagne "Yellow LaClicquotbel", Veuve , FR, NV


Wine Spectator: 90 Points


Tasting Notes: A crisp and lacy Champagne, with a hint of smoke underscoring flavors of poached apricot, pastry cream and pickled ginger. An overtone of Mandarin orange peel ties it all together.


$52.95  $49.95


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Champagne "Grand Reserve", Gosset, FR, NV


Wine Spectator: 93 Points


Tasting Notes: A tightly knit Champagne, backed by racy acidity, this is fresh and harmonious, with a finely detailed mousse and a delicate range of black raspberry, pickled ginger and chalk flavors, offering a touch of salted almond that echoes on the finish.


$48.95  $44.95


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Champagne "Yellow LaClicquotbel", Veuve , FR, NV


Wine Spectator: 90 Points


Tasting Notes: A crisp and lacy Champagne, with a hint of smoke underscoring flavors of poached apricot, pastry cream and pickled ginger. An overtone of Mandarin orange peel ties it all together.


$52.95  $49.95


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Champagne "Ice Imperial", Moët & Chandon, FR, NV

Tasting Notes: Moet Ice Imperial is the world's first champagne specifically created to be enjoyed on ice during the day when the weather is hot. Ice Imperial is a deep gold color with amber highlights and powerful aromas of tropical fruits, nectarine, and a note of raspberry. On the palate there is a broad, fleshy, voluptuous flavor of fresh fruit salad, the captivating sweetness of caramel and quince jelly, and the refreshing acidity of grapefruit and ginger notes.


$74.95  $72.95


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Champagne "Rosé", Veuve Clicquot, FR, NV


Wine Spectator: 91 Points


Tasting Notes: A harmonious rosé, with crunchy acidity well-meshed to the lacy mousse and minerally, smoke- and stone-laced underpinning, forming a fine frame for the flavors of ripe white cherry and pink grapefruit zest, accented by a touch of whole-grain toast.


$60.95  $58.95


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