Planet Oregon Sparkling Rosé 2025We Americans dont drink enough Champagne, even though every time you open Champagne, it creates a party and there is never any wine left over. So why not start every picnic party with a bottle of bubbles? Now this isnt Champagne, but it is one of my favorite domestic sparklers. I think Tony Soter (the owner of Planet Oregon) is a master winemaker, and this one truly shows his skilldelivering a nose of berries and red flowers that moves to rich cherry

While 89% of all of the Rhone’s wines are red

the wine is racked into old casks and left to settle for a year until bottling

baking spice

" - Decanter

out from the cellar come more reds

A rare few also stop you in your tracks

Domaine Filliatreau’s 2021 Château Fouquet Saumur Rouge is exactly that sort of wine

Ends with refined tannins

But even more amazing

in this glass of wine

almost architectural finish

the wine is built the old way