While we were stocking up on sparkling wines during our recent trip to Majestic Wine, we decided that along with some of the pricier (albeit good deal) wines, we would try a couple of the real bargains. One of them caught our eye - the Undurraga Brut from the Maipo Valley in Chile. It was around £11 for two bottles, and since we had tried and liked a sparkling wine from this region before, we thought we couldn't lose on this one.
Saturday was a beautiful day, and we were grilling steaks for dinner. Since the Undurraga is a chardonnay/pinot noir blend, we thought we'd open it with our meal. It was incredibly bubbly, but smelled like sweet grape soda - not a great start. Then we tried it. Nothing. I sipped again, and my husband asked me what I thought. Still nothing. It tasted of absolutely nothing. A big bottle of alcoholic bubbles.
So, we got our mixers out - blackberry liquer for him, passion fruit puree for me - and made 'champagne cocktails'. This is the perfect wine for this, because the bubbles lasted all the way to the end of my glass, despite having diluted the wine. And, there's no reason to preserve the flavour of the wine (since there isn't any), so you can mix it with just about anything.
We've got a second bottle - any good recommendations for cocktails out there?
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