New Year's Eve sparkling wine tasting

I stopped at the old PA wine & spirits store (limited selection) and picked up a few sparkling wines to taste for New Year's Eve.

Here's what I got:

- Barefoot Bubbly Brut Cuvee (Champagne "style")

- Cavit Lunetta Prosecco

- Freixenet Cordon Negro Cava Brut

- Elmo Pio Asti Spumante

Here are some terms defined to help understand these wines.

- Brut: Very Dry

- Cuvee: First press or special batch

- Asti Spumante: sparkling wine produced in the town of Asti in Piedmont, Italy. Made from the Moscato Bianco grape, it is sweet and low in alcohol, and often served with dessert.

- Cava: is a Spanish sparkling wine made in the traditional method of the French sparkling wine

- Champagne: is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of the wine to effect carbonation. Made exclusively in Champagne region of France.

- Prosecco: a dry sparkling wine, generally made from grape variety Glera, which is grown in the Veneto region of Italy.