Another January, another cava. This year, spurred on by both the Wall Street Journal, which I fuzzily remember has having said good things about this wine, and also by the little blurb out of the Wine Spectator ("fairly classy and elegant" &ndash "we're fairly classy", M. said) we tried out Segura Viudas (warning: website makes excessive use of noxious Flash animation).
Verdict: ehh. I think it's okay, a two-note sort of bubbly; M. doesn't think it even rates one note.
Note from M.B.: Yes, I thought it was uninteresting, even for the very marginally classy consumers at the Casa. (My favorite bubbly is still a Gosset - "the poor man's Krug", as I once saw it described.) What we lack in class we make up for in sheer geekliness - observe the Feathers McGraw and the copy of a finished workbook of Singapore Math, which K-selectin' Fleck y Breen inflicts on its sole heiress. Yeah, we know what y'all are thinking: "There but for the grace of God..."
Posted by David Fleck at 12 January 2006 12:52 PM