WINE OF THE WEEK

Francis Ford Coppola is known for movies.  A screenwriter, director, and producer known primarily for The Godfather, Coppola is also owner of a California winery (or two ... or three).  After purchasing the old Inglenook winery, Coppola set to work stocking the winery with some of his most valuable assets: talented winemakers.  His wine line includes FC Reserve, Diamond Collection, Votre Sante, and Sofia (named after his daughter), plus many more.

Thank goodness for both Coppola and Sofia because this week's wine pick not only comes from their vineyard in California, it comes in cans.

CANS.

Sofia Blanc de Blancs, an effervescent sparkling white wine, is fruity, zesty, and refreshing.  It certainly is available in a larger, rotund bottle (seems all Sofia wines are in slightly unusually shaped bottles), but it is also available in single-serving cans.  Yes, cans.  Did I mention cans? 

Make no mistake -- this wine is good.  Making the wine even better, I won't get busted driving with a re-corked "open" bottle, and this is because each can is its own container.  The best thing about the Sofia Blanc de Blancs is that now people (and by "people," I, of course, mean ME) can make drinks like Mimosas (et al) on the fly.

The wine doesn't taste tinny; it doesn't taste metallic; it doesn't flatten out as soon as it's poured.  From a can.  So, folks, this week's wine choice is Sofia Blanc de Blancs.  Can it ... or don't.