Message in a bubble

Last night I stopped in to one of my favorite restaurants, Red Red Wine Bar, on Main Street in Annapolis. They have a fantastic wine menu, very reasonable pricing, and even offer wines on tap! (It's the weirdest thing to see.)

I was in a bubbly kind of mood, so I tried a wine flight called "Message in a Bubble." The wine on the left is a prosecco, which was my favorite. Not too sweet, it had a nice fruity, citrusy flavor. It was very bright and flavorful. According to the info that came with it, that particular prosecco was a favorite of Charles De Gaulle, former president of France. 

The one in the middle is a cava, which is a Spanish bubbly, and was the closet to champagne of the three, which explains why it was also my least favorite of the three. Champagne is almost always made of Chardonnay grapes, which are not my favorite. This selection had that dry, buttery flavor typical of champagne/Chardonnay, so while it was still pleasant, it was not my top choice.

The third was a rose, mostly Merlot but with a few other grapes blended in. That was a nice dry offering, probably very refreshing on a hot day. 

Overall, enjoying three different bubbles side by side was delightful. It was fun to try to decide if I wanted to take a sip from each and rotate through them or if I would enjoy each one individually and then move on the the next (first I did the former, then switched to the latter to finish them off).