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Hey, Domain Dave here for cheapwinefinder.com. As always, um made a Costco stop and I picked up a um kava. Kava's sometimes the uh forgotten sparkling wine bubbly. It's made the same way as champagne and in most of California, Northern California's sparkling wines. But it's always a little more, well a lot more economical than um than champagne. So what we have here is the Marquis di La Concordia, got that out, Kava MM Special Selection Route 2022. It is a vintage dated kava. Most uh even in champagne, the the starter wines, I'll call them, are all non-vintage. They will take different vintages and blend them together to ensure that you get the same experience every year you drink it. They want to they want to get their style in your head, and that's what they do. But in special vintages, especially in Champagne, where the expensive stuff are all vintage dated, but if it's a special year in the vineyard, they will make a wine that records what that was, and this is a special year. Hold on. Marquis de la Concordia is a Rioja, um which is over by the French border, as well as a um Penades uh Kava producer, and they're about 40 miles southeast of um Barcelona, and that's the heart of the Kaba district. They're supposed to be like in this village in that area, there's 80 different producers, and these people have been around since the 1880s. So this is a producer that's been doing it for 140 years in the heart of Caba country, so that part is taken care of. They know what they're doing, and one of the funny things is I was trying to figure out because this is a Costco wine, and I don't think the producer was quite prepared to send it to the United States because there's not a lot of information in English about it. And they also have a uh a root selection that's not a 2022, it's just a regular non-vintage. So, what is what I don't really know. But it's $12.99 at Costco, and they only have a what's that a 15% markup no matter what, and most wine shops have could be 100%, could could be 200% markup, could be less, could be 25, 40, 50, but never 15%. So this pricing is pretty good. And I was saying that uh one of major wine uh reviewers gave it 92 points and the other gave it 86 point, which is kind of mid. So this might be a wine that not everybody likes. I like it. I'm gonna take a sip. It's a brute, which means it's dry. A little bit viscous in the in the on the mouthfeel. It's got firm flavors, it's got lemon lime, but not not sweet, not like Dr. Pepper or anything. Not that I don't mean Dr. Pepper, I mean uh 7 Up is uh I'm dating myself a 7 Up um lemon lime flavor. It's got it's got green apple, it's got dry pineapple, it's got those kind of wines, but it's kind of firm in its in its on your mouth. The flavors hit you, but not they're they're all bounced, but they're kind of um they're not wishy-washy, let's put it that way. So there we go. This is a really nice $12.99 vintage dated. You don't always get vintage dated wines. I'm seeing the wine industry now is down 15% for several years in a row. And I just picked up a um, which I'm gonna talk about in the next few days, a um prosecco, a rose prosecco from uh from Italy. That's also vintage dated. How often do you get that? We're getting these wines that are usually more expensive, come down to the to our to our vintage, to our cheap winefinder price range. Because you you know, getting a vintage dated wine is always a good thing. That means the grapes, since they decided that they should do it, that means the grapes were exceptional. And since they've been making the wine for 150 years, that part of it was pretty much like black work. So if you like their style, you're gonna like the wine. They're not gonna mess it up. I'm gonna take another sip because it's because value price um bubbly often has just that right amount of acidity that makes you want to go. I should take another sip. And I should. Yeah. This is bargain, this is summer bubbly. Put it on ice, it's made the same way as champagne. I don't know how long the second triage, that's this where the bubbles come in, the second fermentation. In Spain, it's a minimum of nine months. They can go above nine months, but it's just a minimum of nine months. Where in uh champagne it's gotta be a year and a half. So there we go. It's warmer down in Spain, so it doesn't need the long, long uh second fermentation. But this is really well balanced, sleek, tasty, inexpensive bubbly from a producer's been around. You know, they're not a flyby night, uh they started making wine 10 years ago. So if you're in Casco and you're looking for a good bubbly for the summer, check it out. I recommend it. Saudios, this is the Marquis di Concordia Cava MM Special Selection Brute 2002. That's a lot to say. So Adios, keep a cheap domain day, cheap wine finder. Bye bye.