Tasting Notes
Wild Arc Farm 2020 Skin Contact Piquette
Tasting Notes
Wild Arc, you beautiful, diabolical geniuses, you’ve done it again. This bubbly can of orange piquette is the bubbly can of orange piquette to rule all bubbly cans of orange piquette. Bow down to a swirling clementine-scented breeze full of raw pear, fuzzy overripe nectarines (just before they get mushy and ruin a perfectly good continental breakfast), and perfume-y Hongyuan guava hard candies. I love those things. Then, there’s this kinda-grassy afterbite of nutty matcha that reminds me of those 99-cent cans of Arizona green tea, the ones that only make sense when washing down an NYC baconeggandcheese on a squishy poppyseed-speckled kaiser roll. You wanna sip on your stoop for hours doing nothing but blasting Biggie raps and flipping off pigeons who look at you the wrong way? Do that with this citrusy, butterscotch-gold elixir.
Pair With:
A pile of baja-style fish tacos drizzled with chipotle crema, or a crunchy chicken salad stacked with lil mandarin oranges, fresh lime, toasty sesame seeds, cabbage, wonton strips, and a sesame soy dressing.
Funk-o-Meter
Like when someone decided to lay “Party & Bullsh*t” over “Party In the U.S.A.” Brilliant.