Country Living promises and delivers on the Perfect Summer White

On our way to Houston, I was reading through the June 2011 Country Living magazine (yes, I'm an addict because of the food recipes, decorating ideas, and their bargain of the month recommendations). This month's bargain was the Famega Vinho Verde that runs for $6.99 a bottle. Their promise was: "Trust us: Take one sip of Famega's Vinho Verde, a light and fizzy Portuguese white, and you won't serve anything else on hot afternoons." That was a bold statement, so I told Eric we needed to find it.

The feature listed the website http://www.astorwines.com/  As luck would have it, we found it at World Market in Houston for $6.99 a bottle quite by accident! We bought it to try and they were right. Even now, I wish we had picked up a case because it really is the perfect summer wine. The wine was light, citrusy, a bit sweet, but not too much, it was just a perfect wine for a hot summer day.  There was a certain tartness to it that added a bit of bite, but also kept the wine refreshing.  This is a great drinking wine since the alcohol content is only 9.5%, quite a bit lower than most wines on the market. This is the perfect wine for seafood, lighter cheeses, fruits, or salads.

We plan on picking up more as soon as we can make it to the closest World Market in Corpus Christi. If we can find it somewhere that will order it for us locally, I will update this post.

**This post should be credited to Pris, but we've been having some problems with Blogger and she can't log in. I write this only because I am not a Country Living addict, but I do like their recipes and keep a good number of them.**