Thursday Tasting — Bubbles | August 20

Eight bubbles. Three ways to make them. Not one of them Champagne.

Harvest starts in a few weeks and the cellar gets serious, so this is the calm before the crush: the last easy Thursday of summer, poured cold. Every wine on the table started still, and where the second fermentation happens is the whole story. We open with a hillside Prosecco from a thousand-year-old Venetian estate and a Cava made the Champagne way at a Prosecco price, then take two hard turns: sparkling Sauvignon Blanc off weathered granite on the oldest farm in Constantia, and a Lambrusco that runs white because Lini pressed the red grape straight off its skins. The serious glass is a vintage Chenin from Touraine with three years of aging behind it, and then it goes pink and gets softer as it goes: dry Pinot Nero from Friuli, a creamy Prosecco Rosé from the Veneto, and to close, Jean-Paul Brun's FRV 100, an off-dry Gamay pét-nat at 7.5% that drinks like the best sparkling lemonade you have ever had. No reservation needed. Just show up.

The Lineup

• Borgoluce Prosecco Superiore Brut — $25
• Marqués de Cáceres Cava Brut — $19
• Steenberg Sparkling Sauvignon Blanc — $19
• Lini 910 Labrusca Lambrusco Bianco — $20
• 2019 Jean-François Mérieau J'ose Les Fines Bulles — $27
• Le Monde Pinot Nero Rosé — $23
• 2023 Riondo Prosecco Rosé — $20
• Terres Dorées FRV 100 — $28

Thursday, August 20 · 5:00–8:30pm · $20 · No reservation needed

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