On August 6th, I attended the California Classic Sparkling Wines tasting which was held at Corkbuzz wine bar. The wine bar is located at 13 East 13th Street in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan.
The event was curated by Please the Palate, a marketing company for wine and spirit events.
It was a walk around tasting of sparkling wines from the California producers of Domaine Carneros, Schramsberg and Roederer Estate.
All the producers poured their entry level Rosé and non vintage Brut but what were the stand outs were their vintage and disgorged offerings. I was not able to attend the earlier seminar where they poured some older vintages. Fortunately they carried over some of those wines to the walk around tasting so I was able to sampled some of the older bottles.
Those vintage and disgorged wines stood up to anything that was produced in Champagne and in a blind tasting would be hard to tell the difference. Not unexpectedly, Corkbuzz put out some nice charcuterie and fried chicken to go with all that good sparkling wine.
Some of what I sampled:
Domaine Carneros
| 2016 Le Reve | 2020 Brut |
| 2006 Le Reve | NV Brut Rosé |
| 1995 Le Reve |
Schramsberg
| 2004 J. Schram Late Disgorged | NV Brut Rosé |
| 2014 J. Schram Noirs | NV Blanc de Blancs |
| 2015 J. Schram Blancs |
Roederer Estate
| 2007 L’ Ermitage Brut | NV Brut Rosé |
| 2017 L’ Ermitage Brut | Harvest 2020 Black Road Vineyard |
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