At this time of year, most everyone is at least browsing through our sparkling wine section. Champagne remains the top choice, but we have lots of values in alternative sparkling wines. For example, we recently added the Cave De Beblenheim Cremant Brut. It's a sparkler from the Alsace region of France, available for only $16.96 in the Bottle Club®.
The Cave De Beblenheim Cremant Brut is made from Pinot Blanc and Pinot Auxerrois, rather than traditional Champagne grapes. The wine undergoes a second fermentation in the bottle, which gives a lively, delicate sparkle.
It would be difficult to find a more ideal geographical situation for Beblenheim, as the village nestles in the heart of Alsace. The typical charm and atmosphere of the region, so well portrayed by Hansi, the famous Alsatian artist, can be found everywhere: timber-framed houses, stone gateways with coats-of-arms, a beautiful fifteenth-century old Gothic fountain. But without any doubt, Beblenheim exists first and foremost for wine.
The village’s winery is the focal point for hectares of vines across
five rural districts. In this small, typical Alsatian village, jealously-guarded winegrowers’ secrets have been handed down from father to son for generations.
Cave de Beblenheim has been created in 1952 by several winegrowers who decided to pool their expertise in order to work more efficiently. Two years later, together, they obtained their first gold medal. Today, after five decades of constant progress, has reached the sixth place among the wine-producers in Alsace, and brings together 150 winegrowers, cultivating vines in Beblenheim and its neighboring villages.
The Cave De Beblenheim Cremant Brut has a very crisp and clean style, offering flavors of stone fruits, green apples and pears, with a mineral-tinged finish. It's light, fresh and a nice alternative to Champagne! Also look for the Rose.
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