10 best champagne and sparkling wine brands 2022
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We should drink sparkling wine at all times. At least that’s what Amy Racine thinks, named Esquire Beverage Director of the Year for her extensive wine list at Iris in New York (a best new Esquire restaurant of 2021). Sparkling wine is “the Red Bull of wine,” she says, because even if it doesn’t give you wings, it uplifts you and fills you with a good mood. I can’t think of a hotter product than The Good Spirit these days.
Champagne, by definition, is a sparkling wine made in a certain way only by certain people in a certain region of France: Champagne. You probably know it. You can get old and fancy bottles of champagne that are quite expensive, and these vintages certainly have their merit. You can also get labels from top brands you recognize, and while a person like Racine may notice inconsistencies from bottle to bottle, they will taste very good to you. (A dry brut can work wonders as a champagne cocktail, regardless of its mass production.) At Iris, an Aegean restaurant, she serves a Greek sparkling wine called Amalia Brut. Spain bottles cavas that it considers comparable to champagne. And she has an eye on British sparklers – who knew? – which tend to be more tart and more mineral.
Moral of the story: Look for small champagne producers when you can: “A first and last producer name that is French is probably a good place to start, rather than a house name,” Racine advises. Champagne origins. Any sparkling wine is better than no sparkling wine. Before heading to your specialty wine store, here are the brands of champagne and sparkling wines that Racine finds most intriguing right now.
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