Fallergo White Wine

Welcome Back!  It’s week 2 of “Cocktail Month” for me and I’d like to share a wine I recently discovered while enjoying Wine Wednesday at Bar Viñedo in Queen Creek.  This is a delicious white to sip during the hot summer months as it is perfectly light and crisp. 

“Fallergo” is produced by an Italian winemaker, Gianni Gagliardo, and is a delicious dry white wine that has a bit of a sparkle to it.  I had to research this further and learned that this characteristic is called “frizzante”, which basically means that the Italians consider this to be slightly sparkling – but less effervescent than champagne.  For me, this provided that little extra touch to enhance how refreshing this wine was to drink.  This would make an ideal beverage to serve as an apéritif.

You can read more about this winemaker as well as the Fallergo on their website here - you will likely need to translate through Google, unless of course you are fluent in Italian.

To purchase this, make a visit to Bar Viñedo at the corner of Power and Rittenhouse in Queen Creek and inquire about it – you can even tell them that The Bubbly Hostess sent you!

California Crush by Tyler Florence - Sauvignon Blanc

It’s week 4 of “Cocktail Month” for me over on The Southeast Valley Ledger and I’m excited to tell you about the Sauvignon Blanc from California Crush by Tyler Florence.  For those of you who have been reading my column and blog for a while, you know that I am a huge fan of this celebrity chef.   I was pretty excited last summer when I learned that he was launching three wines out of the Napa Valley area – a Custom Blended Red, a Pink Moscato, and this Sauvignon Blanc. 

He partnered with Target and made the wines available there at the end of October 2013.  Through Instagram and Twitter, his fans began taking photos of the wines they were finding at Target and hash tagging with #CaliforniaCrush.  I, of course, had to jump in on the action and posted my photo on November 3rd of my husband holding the Red wine and got a “like” from Tyler on Instagram.  I jumped on the bandwagon again with another photo of the Red on National Drink Wine Day and happily got another “like” from him on Instagram.

This crisp, slightly fruity, refreshing white is an excellent choice for summer.  It is beautiful in color and deliciously clean on the palate.  Coming in at $10.99 a bottle (at Target of course!) it’s a decent wine for the price.  

Montignac Picpoul de Pinet

I recently shared this refreshing white wine in my column for the Southeast Valley Ledger and wanted to include on the blog as well for future reference!

This bottle of Montignac Picpoul de Pinet is a light, dry, fruity wine using the Picpoul (or Piquepoul) grape white wine grape variety out of southern France.  I paired the wine with a light pasta dish that was tossed with a lemon-garlic butter and they were excellent together.  As with any dry white wine, this one would be great with chicken or seafood as well.  For the price of $9.99 per bottle, you might as well buy a couple.