Idlewild Flora & Fauna Sparkling, Mendocino, USA 2018

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Is this my favorite dry sparkling white of all time? Ask me again in five years, but the answer is probably. As you glug, you might notice a moment of flowery aromatics that Muscat notoriously loves to show off (diva.) like orange blossom and nutty jasmine iced tea, but its balanced scarily well with flavors on the other end of the spectrum, a.k.a. this quenching Cosmic Crisp apple-y apricot lightness with a twinge of sea salt and gingery citrus. Wowza. Fresh from the icebox and used to proverbially fist-bump a cubic foot of cheese and charcuterie, and its really, really hard to beat that.