Trader Joe’s $8.99 Tasty Italian Bubbles-Viale Antica Asolo Prosecco DOCG

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Hey welcome. Uh Domain Dave here, cheapwineplanter.com with another, as always, uh value priced wine review, and this time we've got a uh$8.99 prosecco from Trader Joe's. It's the Viale Antica Azolo Prosecco D O C G. Extra dry.$8.99. Now the name had a lot of words in there that most people might not know. Uh Viale Antica is the brand name. Azolo is a place in the Prosecco region. Um, it's a small place around the town of uh Azolo. Most Prosecco is in the value price range is mass-produced wine. They make millions of gallons of that stuff. Azolo, not so much. The only to make it a Zolo, it has to be in the vineyards around this small medieval town. At least it looks medieval according to the paperwork here. And it's so you're getting you're not getting this massive amount of grapes from all over. You're getting a very smaller portion of grapes, and it's DOCG. Um, Italy has a wine board that gives the rules and regulations for all their wine. They're very particular about their wines. Uh ICG or ICP nowadays, IGP nowadays, that's the like the entry level. I I guess there's table wine that's below that, but IGP is the one most of us deal with, and that has lesser standards. It tends to be your value price wines. It's the wines that you know the wineries can don't have to be as strict with, but still make good wine. DOC is the standard, and then DOCG is one above that. The G is guaranteed, and they don't guarantee you're gonna like it, but they guarantee the quality. And when you're looking for wine, guaranteed quality is a good, good, good thing. Now, uh Prosecco is made from the Galera grape. The Galera grape is indigenous to that area. They don't make uh it doesn't make a really good still wine. It it hits its usefulness with with bubbly. I'm gonna take a sip. Extra dry just means there's a little bit more sugar than dry wine, and that's good because a galera grape could use a little bit more to make it a little bit more flavorful. Americans used to champagne, and champagne is dry. I mean, if that's the way it and the drier the champagne, the better the champagne. So people, I want my bubbly dry. Well, not with Prosecco, you don't. And that's okay because the acidity, the natural acidity in the glare grape, when it um when it hits the extra sweetness, the extra sugar, bounces that out. The two just melt together, and you're getting what doesn't taste like a sweet wine, but you're getting more rounded uh fruit and citrus flavors, which the wine actually needs. I mean, it's not just oh, just do it this way, it tastes better that way. Go ahead and take another sip. We'll talk about what it tastes like. Maybe grapefruit, not really too tart grapefruit, but there's grapefruit in there, some tropical fruit. Um what else is there? I'm gonna take another sip because there's it's got some really nice little little flavors hopping in and out. I'm almost thinking of banana, but it's not quite banana, but you're getting these nice little flavors in the wine. Something unexpected. You know, it's not, you know, a lot of times you're just getting like uh, you know, grapefruit and and um you know tart apples and that kind of thing and bubbly. This one has some actual flavor to it. It's really nice. It's uh that's and it's something that the Azola region gives the wine. You know, I never can tell the difference between a DOC and a DOC uh G prosecco. And I take them, they kind of taste good, real good, but they're kind of the same. And sometimes they have the DOCG has like extended period in the tank to get the bubbles involved. But if they do it right just regularly, it's it's not that much difference. That's what I've found. Every time I have a Zolo prosecco, I'm getting different flavors, and that's kind of a cool thing. And this one, which is extra dry, is really really nice, really nice flavors. It tastes great. Yep, it's good. It's the uh 899 DOCG. That means guaranteed. It means it's got quality. It's from Trader Joe's 890 899, uh the Viale Antica. It actually has their own website. It's like a real place. Um, Azolo, uh, that's the DOCG area where the grapes come from. Prosecco DOCG, G means quality, and it's extra dry, which gives you a little extra flavor. So, what more can you ask for, especially in an$8.99 wine? So that's it for me, uh, Domain Dave Trader Joe's. I got a nice little bubbly here that's got some flavor to it. So, Adios Keep It Cheap. I think I've got a uh six bucks Trader Joe's grower reserve of organic wine coming up in a couple of days. Uh, we'll see what six bucks buys you. So, adios keep it cheap, and I'll be talking to everybody in a couple days. Bye bye.