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  We continue to enjoy the wine we collected over the past few years and rotate older vintages up from the cellar.  Fortunately, we are long on sparkling wine inventory, so we continue the new tradition of having a post-General Hospital/pre-dinner aperitif of Sparkling wine.  Exploring the cellar, one of the older bottles of Sparkling wine is from Lieb Cellars .   The sparkling wine is a 2011 Reserve Sparkling Pinot Blanc ; after dusting it off , the bottle was in excellent condition.  Surprisingly, the cork held all this time and opened with the classic sparkling wine pop.  2011 Reserve Sparkling Pinot Blanc is impressive; we had a 2013 a few weeks ago that was fine, but to find a bottle 11 years old in the cellar and still in excellent condition is remarkable.  The Pinot Blanc filled the glass with good effervescence and finished with a rich, full head, better than the 2013 Sparkling Pinot Blanc.  The nose is crisp with notes of toast, citrus, and green apple with a pale golden color

  The time has come to enjoy the wine we collected over the past few weeks and rotate older vintages up from the cellar.  Unfortunately, we are a bit long on sparkling wine inventory, so we are starting a tradition of having a post-General Hospital/pre-dinner aperitif of Sparkling wine.  Exploring the cellar, one of the older bottles of Sparkling wine is from Lieb Cellars .   The sparkling wine is a 2013 Reserve Sparkling Pinot Blanc ; after dusting it off , the bottle was in excellent condition.  Surprisingly, the cork held all this time and opened with the classic sparkling wine pop.  The Pinot Blanc filled the glass with good effervescence and finished with a full head.  The nose is crisp with notes of toast, citrus, and green apple with a pale golden color (Fig 01).  The wine is remarkably creamy and smooth on the palate, with citrus notes and a bright finish.  The Lieb Cellars Sparkling Pinot Blanc was a fine sparkling wine as an aperitif and well worth keeping in inventory if one