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Toasting a New Year With a Great Texas Sparkling Wine

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Fast moving toward an end, 2016 will be toasted, roasted, and kicked the heck out as the seconds run down towards the beginning of the new year. With that in mind, have you yet considered the wine with which you’ll be toasting? There’s a whole herd of sparkling wines from Texas that will look great in your glass, taste great on the lips, and help you remember just why you have things to be grateful for!

Why Do We Call it Sparkling Wine…Besides the Bubbles?

Toasting a New Year With a Great Texas Sparkling Wine

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Made all over the world, sparkling wines are the go-to drink for New Year’s Eve. With the Champagne region of France being famous for, well, champagne, international trade laws have prohibited the use of the word for sparkling wines in other regions, including the great state of Texas. So “sparkling wine” it is, for those beautiful beverages with bubbly effervescence, and a few Texas wineries make some of this stuff that dreams are made of.

Messina Hof

Toasting a New Year With a Great Texas Sparkling Wine

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Messina Hof Winery has three great sparkling wines to choose from, include Sparkling Almond, Brut, and Spumante, all available at the winery or online (although we’re a little close to New Year’s Eve for online purchases, it’s something to consider for future celebrations). All three are crisp and refreshing, made with different varietals, and having each a different bouquet and taste.

Flat Creek Estates

Toasting a New Year With a Great Texas Sparkling Wine

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Flat Creek Estates Winery in the Texas Hill Country makes a Sparkling Almond which is a pleasant medium-dry, made from Chardonnay and Chenin Blanc grapes. It has a touch of sweetness, with hints of green apple, pear, and toasted vanilla and can be found at select Specs’s stores, however again, this close to New Year’s, it wouldn’t hurt to make the trip to the winery itself.

Landon Winery

Toasting a New Year With a Great Texas Sparkling Wine

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Landon Winery (McKinney) offers a White Sparkling Wine for approximately $20 per bottle, which is festive and refreshingly smooth. It pairs nicely as a dessert wine and is available at select H-E-B stores.

McPherson Cellars

Toasting a New Year With a Great Texas Sparkling Wine

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McPherson Cellars has had great success with a sparkling wine consisting of one hundred percent Texas grown grapes but the sparkling finish is created in California. It has a delicate sweetness and retails for approximately $28 per bottle at the winery and select H-E-B stores. Whatever your pleasure regarding these great Texas wines, may you have an excellent upcoming new year, filled with love, joy, good health, and great wealth!