Tesco Finest Cremant d'Alsace Riesling 2005

This wine is interesting for a number of reasons:

• It's a non-champagne region French sparkling wine
• It's from Alsace
• It's 100% Riesling, which is rare for sparkling wines
• It's a vintage wine (2005)
• It's well priced (£8.99)

So how was it? I thought it was a bit strange actually, although not in a bad way. It tasted different from most other sparkling wines. I thought I could get a bit of an oak taste from it, or even that peat flavour you get in some Scotch whiskies.

It's made for Tesco by a winery called Kuehn. I couldn't find out much about them from my half-assed Google search, except that they've been making wine since 1678, so presumably they know what they're doing.

I'd like to try this again at some point, and for £8.99 it's a safe bet I will.

Tesco Finest Cremant d'Alsace Riesling 2005
Cremant d'Alsace AC, Alsace, France
Tesco
£8.99
3/5