Tasting Notes
Old Westminster Skin Contact Piquette Can
Wine Type: Orange, Sparkling, Piquette
Region: USA (Maryland)
Grapes: Old Westminster won’t tell. But since it’s an orange wine, we can conclude that it’s made from white grapes. Thank you, nature (and deductive reasoning).
Tasting Notes
I’m not telling you to pour this skin contact piquette can into a glass before crushing it. But if you did, you’d see a phenomenal translucent coral-colored waterfall. It’s the spitting image of a melted summer sunset, or Arbor Mist’s Pineapple Strawberry Pink Moscato. Though, I promise it tastes nothing like a boozy Capri Sun meant for grown adults who own dish towels patterned with barrels and corks. Instead, it’s a refreshing, low-alcohol, wilderness-adventure-friendly blend with some wild funk and all the acidic fruitiness of gummy worms (or bears, or sharks, depending on what you usually reach for at a Pic-N-Mix). It’s tart and bubbly, but any sour candy bite it has plays nicely with a yeasty, almost sourdough-like tang. All in all, imagine sparkling peach Jell-O shots spiked with wheat beer. Wait, that sounds great. BRB while I go try that.
Pair With:
Day drinking while half-assing an afternoon hike in the woods, a handful of Wheat Thins if you’re feeling snacky, or a chicken burger with a big ol’ swipe of garlicky aioli and a side of waffle fries if you’re feeling ravenous.
Funk-o-Meter
If you blindfolded one of your craft brew nerd friends and told them that it was a sour peach saison, they’d probably believe you - but would get kinda mad since you blindfolded them, and then lied.
