Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Bubbles are a girl's best friend...

says the tasting notes for Stone Hill Winery's Brut Rose. While I'm not totally sure that I prefer sparkling wine to diamonds (only one of these will help a damsel escape, James Bond-style, from a glass box in a villain's secluded island lair), it's a very good wine.

While Missouri is gaining a reputation for wine made from native grapes and French hybrid varietals, I certainly wasn't expecting such a balanced and flavorful wine. Not sweet, but not very dry either, Stone Hill's owner and winemaker Thomas Held has a deft hand, with the regional wine festival medals to prove it. Considering the necessarily high prices for small production wines, $18.99 for this bottle is a good value. And both the packaging and the wine itself is an attractive shade of pink. Yes sir, this is a girly wine...but an intellectual girly wine--like a physics student in a pink sweater.

Stone Hill Winery Brut Rose (NV), $18.99, stonehillwinery.com

Interested in learning more about Missouri wine and native American wine grapes? The Missouri Wine Program's new Norton Says website is a fun, interactive place to learn about Norton and other Missouri varietals.

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