The hardest working wine in your wine cellar, Korbel Rouge

Everything you love about bubbly is here in Korbel Rouge, but this time rendered in a ruby-red glass of exquisite beauty. Combining pinot noir and cabernet sauvignon grapes give you intense ripe black cherry aroma and a hint of plum. Okay, from a distance it might look a little like Boone’s Farm, Ripple, or Mad Dog 20/20, but Korbel Rouge is anything but. I always order a few cases for the holidays, because it’s a festive looking libation, and a real crowd-pleaser. Korbel used to only make it from Thanksgiving until New Years, but they got wise to the fact that:

1. It’s jaw-droppingly beautiful in a glass, and dressed to impress…
2. It’s goes as well with a burger and a steak as it does with a more ambitious holiday meal
3. People love the fact that they are drinking a sparkling, cold, glass of dry, red wine
4. For $11.99 a bottle it’s a steal
5. Especially if you are in the Wine Club
6. For this reason, they make it all year long….
7. Lucky us!

Perfect for a wedding, pre-event, bachelorette party or barbeque, Korbel Rouge is quite possibly the hardest working wine in your wine cellar.

About

[Excerpted from the Korbel.com site]

KORBEL Rouge is a medium-dry champagne created from pinot noir and cabernet sauvignon grapes. With a distinctive red color, the aroma and flavor are those of intense black cherry, strawberry and plum. Approximately 1% residual sugar keeps it as dry as the KORBEL Brut but removes any tannic bitter edge.

Food Pairing
Korbel Rouge is excellent with a holiday turkey dinner.  It also teams perfectly with hearty pastas, red meats and robust seafood dishes. Try champagne turkey lasagna; tomato base foods: soft-shell crab with roasted tomato sauce, gazpacho, blue cheese ravioli in a Korbel Rouge sauce.

Wine Profile
Harvested:  September 2007
Sugar Level:  21.3 Brix
Tirage Bottled:  August 2008
Disgorged: As required

Wine Information
Appellation:  Sonoma County
Fermentation:  SS Fermentation, Part Barrel Aged
Composition:  Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Syrah
Acid/pH:  6.6 g/l  3.41
Alcohol:  12.3%
Dosage:   1%
Production:  2,500 cases annually

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