Are California’s best sparkling wines from the Central Coast?

Are California’s best sparkling wines from the Central Coast? – Decanter

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Vanessa Rason

September 22, 2025

Champagne has long been the liquid symbol for celebration, poured at coronations, christenings and Christmas tables with inevitability. Yet the assumption that only one region can produce suitable sparkling wine is beginning to feel tired.

What began as borrowed prestige founded on another’s reputation and nomenclature has given way to a new seriousness: sparkling wines of artisanal quality, defined not by loopholes but by their distinct terroir and a commitment to the regional ‘house style’.

This is not an imitation. It is translation: French blueprints reinterpreted in Californian sunlight, tempered by maritime breezes and rooted in soils ranging from chalk to diatomaceous earth. The result is wines that can compete on merit rather than marketing.

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Brilliant bubbles from California’s Central Coast: seven to try

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