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Italian Elegance: Le Monde Pinot Nero Rosé Sparkling Wine Review
Discover the Le Monde Sparkling Pinot Nero Rosé, a delightful Italian bubbly from Frulli in northeastern Italy that offers incredible value at just $8.99. This unique sparkling wine combines champagne-style grapes with Prosecco production methods for a refreshing, delicate, and surprisingly complex sipping experience.
• Estate wine from Italy's northeastern Frulli region, near the borders of Slovenia and Austria
• Made from Pinot Nero (Pinot Noir) but produced using the Charmat method like Prosecco
• Features delicate flavors of cherry candy, raspberry, plum, brioche and subtle minerality
• Characterized by very tiny bubbles, often considered a sign of quality in sparkling wine
• Refreshing acidity that makes you reach for the next sip before you realize it
• Best enjoyed as a standalone summer sipper rather than paired with food
• Available for $8.99, though not commonly found on end caps or prominent displays
• Look in the Italian wine section of your store for this hidden gem
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Hey, it's Domain Dave, CheapWineFindercom, welcome. We got another wine review today. We wrote it up on the CheapWineFindercom website, so if you want to read it, it's over there. This is a wine I found for $8.99, though it was $8 off. Why, I don't know. Maybe it was end of the bin type of thing, but it's the Le Monde Sparkling Pinot Nero Rosé. It's a brute wine, meaning it's not sweet. Le Monde means the world. Like I said, it's an estate wine.
Speaker 1:It's from Frulli, which is in the northeast section of Italy. You go any further east and you're in Slovenia. You go north, you're in Austria. The same general area is mostly a white wine region. This is kind of in the area where all the Pinot Grigio is from, in the area where all the Pinot Grigio is from. So a bubbly Pinot Noir or Pinot Nero is a little bit out of the usual, but not too much. I'm going to take a sip.
Speaker 1:Pinot Noir in France is one of the two main grapes of champagne. This is not made like a champagne. This bubbly is made in the Charmette method, which is how they make Prosecco. You ferment the wine the first time and then you transfer the wine to a large pressurized vat. It's got a hood on it, it'll lock down. Add the measured amount of yeast, measured amount of sugar, lock the hood down, turn the pressure up and after in this case, 20 days, you get the bubbles, will incorporate into the wine. The fermentation process second time releases CO2. The CO2's got nowhere to go but incorporate into the wine. The fermentation process a second time releases CO2. The CO2 has got nowhere to go but back into the wine. And there's the bubbles. And after 20 days it holds, they turn the pressure off, or at least maybe just a little lightly, for another 60 days just to get the wine to settle and you bottle it.
Speaker 1:So this is a bubbly made with champagne style grapes but made in Prosecco style. So how does it taste? It's light and it's delicate. It's got that kind of acidity that makes you want to reach for the next sip before you really think about it. I mean, you're taking that sip and you haven't actually said I need another sip. I'm going to pour a little more in my glass because I am sipping it a little bit more than I should. Or maybe not that I should, but the acidity's got a hold on me. Or maybe not that I should, but this sooty's got a hold on me. It's got cherry maybe more rather than fresh cherry, maybe cherry hard candy. It's got a little brioche. It's got a little bit of raspberry and those type of things, plums, but all light and delicate flavored. It's got maybe a little bit of minerality to it.
Speaker 1:This isn't maybe I don't know if this is a wine that you would necessarily pair with something. A lot of times you can pair a bubbly with, I mean, an interesting salad or cold shrimp or you know, white, a white fish of some sort white pasta. I don't know if I'd do it with this one, but I mean, just because the flavor is so delicate, it might not stand up to whatever you're having. I mean, I imagine there are things you can have that it will stand up to. But this is a sipper. It's got very, very tiny bubbles. I read somewhere that you can tell about the quality of a bubbly I use bubbles by the size of the bubbles. The tinier they are, the better integrated there is and the better the wine is produced. And this has teeny, tiny bubbles, though even like the worst bubble he has tiny bubbles.
Speaker 1:I'll take another sip. So it's Le Mans Sparkling Pinot Nero Rosé. You're going to have to look in your Italian wine section. This is not one of the ones you're going to see on the end caps, and they might not have it everywhere, though I think they have enough of this out there and it's a really interesting specialty. You can find it at $8.99.
Speaker 1:Like I did, it's an interesting sparkling wine. I mean, it's just a summer sipper, I mean it's. I don't normally have champagne with meals, but you know, so though this one doesn't lend itself to that, it's perfectly fine, but the more I sip it and the more the city makes me want to sip it, the better I sip it, and the more the city makes me want to sip it, the better I like it. Delicate, refreshing man, that's what a bubbly is supposed to do, isn't it? So? The Le Monde Sparkling Pinot Nero Rosé, and it's kind of cool. So there you go. This is Domain Dave CheapWineFindercom. Like us, re-lock your podcast. I've got an actual California Pinot Noir coming up in a couple of days. So, adios, keep it cheap, and I'll be talking to you. Goodbye.