It’s pink, bubbly, and delicious — what else do you need? This perfect party starter is also a conversation starter. You can tell your friends it’s made from Malbec, a grape indigenous to Bordeaux that has found fast fame in Argentina.

Trivia: While the Alta Vista winery is best-known for collectible reds, it is owned by Count Patrick d’Aluan, whose family owned the renowned Champagne house Piper-Heidsieck for nearly a century and a half until it was sold in 1998. Thus, the Count knows a thing or two about sparkling wine!

Pronounced AHL-tah VEE-stah BROOT roh-ZAY of MAHL-bek