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So when I went to check out the new Bodega Wine Bar in Santa Monica, I asked for Champagne, which they didn't have. I asked for sparkling wine, and they only had entire bottles available for a lot more than I was willing to spend to drink it by myself. They had nothing by the glass. They did, however, have Sofia Mini Blanc de Blancs, California sparkling wine in a can from Coppola-Niebaum. I had heard and read about it before, but never tried it. I mean, really now. In a can?
The can is pretty and totally appeals to the girly girl in all of us, especially since it comes, like Capri Sun, with a straw attached to it. I ditched the straw and asked the bartender to at least pour it out of the can and into a glass. It wasn't horrible. It sparkled, a little more than I would expect from a sparkling wine - more along the lines of a soda, and the taste was very fruity. I could see how this would definitely work, say, in a club or raucous bar environment, when function and fashion are far more important than flavor, but at home, or even on a picnic, I'd rather have a bottle.
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6-08-2006 @10:03PM Mike said... The extra effervescence was probably due to it being a carbonated still wine, not a sparkling wine as you'd be used to.
The marketing and packaging of the wine is the cool part. The stuff inside the can: so-so.
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6-09-2006 @1:14PM scott said... cans are the new black for packaging these days. i had some wine from Billy Goat Hill in a can on a Tiger Airways flight from Singapore to Thailand in 2004. on the east coast, a few craft brewers are putting their small batch beers in cans, such as the Sly Fox Brewery just outside of Philadelphia.
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