Piper Sonoma Brut Sonoma County Select Cuvee–Your New Year’s Eve Bubbly

With New Year’s Eve (a/k/a Amateur Night) just around the corner, a wine sleuth may be on the lookout for a reasonably priced, high quality domestic sparkling wine.  Here’s a thought for your consideration–shag a couple of bottles of the delicious Piper Sonoma Brut Sonoma County Select Cuvee NV.  Reasonably priced at an $18 suggested retail, the Piper Sonoma Brut NV is comfortably priced at $10 or so below  fair-to-middling Champagne.  This domestic sparkler presents a balanced, appetizing flavor profile of raspberry, apples, cinnamon and toasted almonds, with all the bubbles that your nose would care to be tickled by!  The Piper Sonoma Brut is widely available for your shopping pleasure.   The quality of this Piper Sonoma offering is such that Wine Spectator named it both a member of its 100 Top Values of 2014 and listed it as a “Sparkline Wine Values from Around the World” in the December 31, 2014 issue, awarding the wine a solid 87 rating.   Wine Enthusiast chipped in with its own impressive 88 rating of the Piper Sonoma Brut.  When you get right down to it, is there any reason not to have a bottle or two of bubbly at the house for special occasions, or even Sunday brunch?   Here’s a great sparkling wine to bring home!