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Hey, Domain Dave Chip Wine Founder again with another value priced wine review. This is a sparkling wine, Italian sparkling wine. You know, this is uh November, December. We try to go upscale, but this is only 1099, I think it is. Aldi. Um you give me a second here because I always mispronounce the name. Um it's the Aldi specially selected Valdo Badenny. Uh DOCG Um Prosecco. Valdiobadeny, and that's the last time I'm gonna try to pronounce it, is a DOCG section in the middle of the uh Prosecco region. There's also uh DOCG's not DOCG region off the sound azolo. And the most of um Prosecco is DOC. DOC is the Italian wine authority, they make up the rules in the vineyard, uh what how much yield you can have and winemaking rules. And the DOCG is stricter above the board, everything is stricter, and uh the G is guaranteed, they guarantee the quality, they're not gonna guarantee you like it, but they're gonna guarantee the quality, and they actually go out to the different vineyards and check to make sure they're doing everything they way uh the way they should be. Now, for these a good prosecco house in the DOC region is probably doing some pretty good uh pretty good quality um procedures in their vineyards, so maybe uh the difference isn't all that much greater. Uh I I tend not to be able to tell the difference between DOCG and DOC, especially at the lower supermarket price. As Zolos, I can always they taste different, but the other ones are just uh they're pretty good. I mean, I never complain about the quality of a prosecco. I mean the ones that actually get to your store are pretty good. I'm gonna take a sip. I haven't seen the numbers lately, but there was a few years back. Prosecco beat champagne in terms of gallons sold, and you know of quantity, but uh prosec uh champagne made way more money because proseco's well, this is 1099. You can get them under 15 all day long, and you can't get anything under 30 pretty much for um champagne. So prosecco is popular, and it's made in the charmat method, not the champagne method. Uh, champagne method, the second fermentation occurs in each and every bottle. The bottle you bought is where the bubbles were added. Um, the first fermentation for all these bubble houses is where the where the taste comes in. Everybody makes their first fermentation to their house style, and then the second fermentation where they add the bubbles, they add yeast and sugar to the wine, and um the the carbon dioxide that which a byproduct for that gets incorporated and pushed back into the wine. That's all kind of the same thing, it's all a science project there. The flavor project's first fermentation. So, what do we have here with um $11 Aldi? Kind of upscale. And it is DOCG, I mean they are held to different standards, and there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, like I said, the the DOC's fine, but quality in the vineyard in the winery is not something you should overlook. It's a particular sip. Has a jugged bottle. Um, it's short and squat. Looks nice, not as easy to pour, but looks nice. $11 as an upscale, and the thing about the specially selected line at Aldi is they intentionally went to some of the finest um growing regions in the world and got a wine uh made for them. I don't know who made this. Uh typically, Roseco in the Charman method, they use these huge tanks. And they um, and when the wines got the bubbles incorporated, pressurized tanks, they bottle what they need and keep the pressure on, keep everything in there, and then as it's needed, they'll do more. So they always have more than they need. So if you want to go and purchase prosecco, and you see that, you see like uh cupcake or uh 90 points plus or a 90 point sellers, that kind of thing. There's a lot of people out there who have prosecco's because it's it's available from different houses to be purchased at a cheaper price, and and it comes in at a nice selling price. So and the quality's there. I mean, these are quality bubbles. It's kind of mellower, it's not sharp like some bubblys are where they're crisp and sharp. This one is kind of um smoother, easy to sip. I would like uh I don't know, I wouldn't maybe do that. This is like um before the meal. This is you got a nice, kind of interesting uh tray of different cheeses. You know, Trader Joe's is good for that. They had they pack up some pretty interesting things, and you got a bubbly sparkling wine prosecco, and you know, the cheese the cheese will coat your mouth, and this will kind of cut the uh cut the acidity for the next cheese. It's pretty cool. Well, this is a nice little wine for the holidays. You this is what you start people off with. It's pretty good, and I'm not gonna say the Veldeo by denity here, uh, but it's the Aldi uh DLCG superior brosacco. It's in the stores for 11 bucks. Uh it's a good wine, so adios, keep it cheap. Bye bye.