INSIDER'S PICK: NV MARY TAYLOR/SOFIA BRESCIA VENETO FRIZZANTE $14.99

With Spring spring-ing everywhere around us, it's a good time to start seeking out some warmer weather value wines to enjoy during outside socializing with our friends and neighbors. Wines with a bit of fizz can be fun, but there is a LOT of generic efforts out there, as if throwing a little bubble in some boring juice somehow makes it better. Good fizz starts with good juice, plain and simple. This bottling comes to us from the Mary Taylor portfolio of wines, an importer that helps to source and create the wines they bring in so that they can have traditional, well priced wines that properly represent their various regions across Europe. The grapes here are Glera, the backbone of Prosecco, as well as Garganega, and though the fruit all comes from within the Prosecco region it falls outside the standards to use that name. Don't sweat the lack of a name, because what's in the bottle is delicious. A light fizzy froth on the pour quickly calms down and leaves pretty golden apple and fresh pear skin aromas that stay crisper the cooler the wine is. The palate has a bit of tickle to it that gives a lot of refreshing texture to the core of white fruits, and gets slightly off-dry feeling the more the fizz falls away. Keep the cap screwed on between pours to keep it as lively as possible, and this will be a crowd pleaser for many months to come.  ​

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