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Taste: Brilliant stone fruits—white peach, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. Toasty vanilla tantalizes your mid-palate with fine beading. This medium-bodied sparkler has lots of green apple, pear, and citrus flavors that evolve with a hint of caramel and biscotti. It's elegant and crisp with a slightly spicy finish. Very well-balanced. Perfect with cracked crab, oysters, shellfish, and truffled popcorn—or New Year's Eve!

Cameron Confidential: Score of the Year! We bought these from a fabulous winery in Napa Carneros that decided not to launch a new $50 sparkling wine brand and instead focus on its still wine business. The owners came to us, we worked out a deal, and you get the best deal on sparkling wine this year. You may ask why so pricey versus our other wines? Good question. Sparkling wines take a tremendous amount of labor to produce, including hand dosage, riddling, disgorging, and expensive heavy glass. Not to mention these are hand labeled, capsuled, and packed for a $50 per bottle program. All of this adds up to the priciest juice in the business.

The label does not denote the 1998 vintage because the dosage used after disgorging is a non-vintage blend. However, this wine is primarily from the 1998 vintage. Who says they don't have a reason to celebrate? Happy Holidays from Cameron Hughes Wine to you!

Lot 25

1998 Sparkling Wine

  • Vintage:  1998
  • Appellation:  Carneros, Napa Valley CA
  • Grape:  50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir, methode Champenoise style
  • Alcohol by volume:  12%
  • Production:  6,000 cases
  • Online availability: Sold out

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