Hey Ma, Wanna Mimosa?Trader Joe's Brut California Sparkling Wine

Trader Joe's Brut California Sparkling Wine

This is an $8.99 Trader Joe's Bubbly that is well-made and full of flavor.

Mother's Day is approaching, and Spring Bubbly cocktails time is upon us!

Pouring supermarket orange juice into an expensive Champagne seems excessive.

But the Trader Joe's Brut California Sparkling Wine calls out to be used as a Champagne cocktail.

It sips well as it does not need any additions, but it goes well with Mimosa's fabulousness.

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Hey, welcome. It's uh Domain Dave again, cheapwinefinder.com. And we got a kind of a wine review today. It's a Mother's Day special, a little early, a little bit. And it's from Trader Joe's. It's$8.99 and it's a sparkling wine. Uh it's called the Trader Joe's Brute California Sparkling Wine. Non-vintage. I mean, for the holidays, we got Trader Joe's Reserve, North Coast, Platinum, Sonoma. I think we got a map of valleys. I mean, we have all sorts of reserve and platinum and diamond uh bubblies from California. And they are, I think they're all made by Rack and Riddle. Rack and Riddle is a large uh contract um bubbly maker. They make sparkling wine, traditional method for the most part, but they can do Charmette, Charmant's the Prosecco method. And actually, you've probably, even if you didn't know you had their wines, if you had a bubbly from a brand that isn't a known sparkling wine brand, they probably made it. And they make uh, as far as I can remember, all of Trader Joe's California sparkling wines. Now, if you get it from you know France or something, it's a different story. But$8.99. And it's a brute. Brute means uh it's not sweet, and it's traditional method, which means it's the uh champagne method. Just a short rundown on that is that they um pick the grapes early when they're still a little sour, maybe a lot sour, and then they um ferment the wine, uh do the regular kind of thing for it, bottle the wine, and each bottle they add a little bit of yeast, a little bit of sugar, close it up, put a temporary top on it, and and then they wait a while. In champagne, you have to wait at least 18 months. This isn't champagne, it's California. So I don't know how long this has been in bottle. I mean, it could be nine months, it could be, you know, it there's no rule. So, but it takes a little bit of time, and that and the fermentation from the yeast and the sugar that happens inside the bottle, the bottle you bought, there's no other bottle. That's that's where the bubbles were added in each and every bottle. And then when they when they're done, they taste it and they go, hmm, they could use a little bit of this, and they take some sweet wine and dump a little bit, measured them out, and there you go, you got your brute wine. Um that's what they do in Champagne. In Champagne, you're paying for the vineyard or the name of the uh champagne house, and here you get in Trader Joe's and Rack and Riddle, and it's nine bucks. Take a sip. It's not bad, not bad at all. Um typically in um champagne and and the more expensive champagne types of wines, you're getting Chardonnay, and then you're getting Pinot Noir and Pinot Mounet. Pinot Noir Munet is a grape that's always used in, or almost always used in um champagne wines. You you see it there all the time. But here I think we might have other grapes. Uh, sometimes keep the price down. You might have a little Chardonnay in there. You might put Savion Blanc, you might put uh Muscat of Alexandria or you know, or some of these other grapes. There's other grapes you're doing so much to the wine. This isn't that from the vineyard to the bottle kind of wines. You know, like Savion Blanc, you uh pick the grapes, you uh decide which yeast you're gonna use to bring out the different flavors. You ferment it, you throw it into a uh tank for a couple of months and you bottle it, it's out the door, you don't do too much to it. Uh traditional style um bubbly, you do a lot to it. So it's not so it's not so much like um are they good grapes? Yeah, they're all good grapes. So what's the deal? Nothing. It can be a perfectly good wine at a cheap price. Is it worth 50 bucks like some of the you know like a typical champagne is? No, it's worth 10 bucks, but doesn't mean it's not good. Take another sip. Okay, so here's a deal. It sips fine. It's a nice, um, it's got a really full, rounded flavor. It's not not too tart, it's not too um crisp, it's not too acidic, it's got a nice little rounded edge to it. It's probably because of whatever grapes they use, and they don't tell you. But it doesn't matter, it tastes good. This is the mimosa special, that's why it's Mother's Day. You know, if you get a$60 bottle of wine and you're gonna put uh grocery store orange juice in it, no, don't do that. But if you're making a good mimosa, this is a good flavored sparkling wine, it's nine bucks, you can pour in what you want to pour in. I mean, it's just fine. It doesn't mind. It's gonna be a good companion to whatever you put in because it already has nice flavor, it's got good acidity, it's not flabby or flaccid, it's gonna hold up to whatever you pour in. Just don't go crazy on pouring in orange juice. And there's a pick. And you got a mimosa, a nice mimosa. I mean, it's gonna work just well. And at nine bucks,$8.99, you can buy an extra model a bottle, and um grandma's gonna get a little bit of a snootbull. And then it's fine. It's Mother's Day, she deserves it. So, um I don't know. This is not a Trader Joe's reserve, this is just a Trader Joe's wine, which you don't always see. Usually it's some sort of reserve or platinum or grand or whatever, and this is just Trader Joe's. Uh probably because they have so many reserves and whatever for their other sparkling wines. But this is good.$8.99. Trader Joe's Brute California sparkling wine non-vintage. Good for you, good to you, mimosa style. Adios, keep it cheap. I've got another um French white wine for the spring, which I think it's been pretty good. So, adios, I'll be talking to you. Keep it cheap.