Honestly, I’ve been putting off this review for the longest time. You may have recalled in the last few posts that I’m trying to get into the habit choosing healthier food options as of late and part of those changes include my love for booze. I had picked up this bottle of Giambellino about a month back and have been reviewing other things in between ever since so seeing that it’s been sitting for a while, and that I haven’t drank alcohol in a while, I’ve decided that today was that day to do it.
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First off, I wasn’t really sure which one is the name of the bottle. By that, I mean the name of the beverage. I think the brand name is Giambellino but not too sure if Bellini is the name of the flavor as I didn’t have an identical bottle from the same brand that had a different name when I picked this up and the name itself is ambiguous enough that it forces you to really read the label to figure out what flavor of wine this is. After reading the label, I come to find out that it’s actually sparkling wine with peach flavorings.
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For $6.99 a bottle, it’s definitely fits my bottom shelf booze criteria of sub-$10 booze that I’ve been reviewing at the start of this blog so that’s a plus. It’s carbonated, which means that we can safely expect that the base liquid has those characteristics that you just know won’t taste all that great when flat.
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First impressions? It’s basically a carbonated peach soda except with alcohol in it. The peach flavor really comes out on your first sip and ever subsequent sip, that peach flavoring is definitely consistent all through out even when I started to get a slight buzz after the 2nd cup or so. Now, bare in mind, I drank this over ice as opposed it being chilled. The ice didn’t do much to curb the bitter aftertaste, which is faint but there if you really try to swish it around in your mouth and palate. That bitter aftertaste is almost like they decided to add the flavor of citrus rind into the peach flavoring. Odd taste to have but hardly noticeable if you’re the average drinker.
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It comes in a 750 ml bottle, is rated at a 8% ABV, and is apparently produced in Germany. According to the back label, it has a ‘peach juice’ whatever that means. Those peach juices must be those that didn’t make the cut because it’s quite sour and while I don’t dislike the sourness necessarily, there is a different between adding a bit of tang and acidity and overdoing it. This, at least for me, is overdoing it but the heavy carbonation in this bottle really does a good job in cutting through that so you feel more of the sensation of fizzy over the tangy flavor–at least insofar as you keep sipping. After a while of not drinking, you really feel it in the mouth and this taste lingers in your mouth almost indefinitely.
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All in all, it’s okay. I think I’d consider it again if they decide to make other flavors that’s more to my liking but peach is a “Meh” type of fruit flavor to me. In other words, it tastes fine but nothing that would really make me want to keep buying over and over again. Personally, I’d rather pay a little more and buy the Orange Mimosa because that one really strikes a better balance between flavor and carbonation.
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I’ve gone to several not seeing the drink in any store in NYC where can I purchase
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Hi Karlene,
Thank you for visiting my blog! I originally bought this at an Aldi here in Southern California.
It seems like there are several Aldi store locations in the NYC area. If it can’t be found in one store locatiojn, you might be able to find it at another store location. However, this is a seasonal item and only comes once a year–sometimes, it never comes back like this specific flavor by Aldi’s private label, Giambellino Bellini. Or maybe, it’s an item that so popular that it sells out the moment it hits the store shelves that it would ‘appear’ as though it never came back.
In any case, since the time of my review of this item, I haven’t seen it come back to the store shelves at the location that I frequent. For me, I usually frequent the Alhambra location but there are technically 3 other different locations that are somewhat near where I live and I would make the drive a bit further out if there was a specific item (or items) that I really wanted but couldn’t find at my usual store location.. There’s one in Burbank, CA, one in Arcadia, CA, and one in Pomona.
Of the three distant locations, I probably would be able to find the item that i want at Burbank or Arcadia but if worst comes to worst, I can sometimes find the items in the Pomona location, which is the farthest drive out of the 3 alternate locations.
Hope this helps and thank you again for my visiting my blog. Please be sure to bookmark it and share it on social media with your friends and family. Cheers! – Goo Wak Jai
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I just purchased a couple bottles of Giambellino peach Bellini at Aldi. I have been buying it for a couple years. I first noticed that the color was a bit different, because I didn’t see floating peach which I was used to seeing. I had a bottle I purchased a few months ago and compared the labels. The new bottle has differences in the label and ingredients.
the new bottle says grape wine with natural flavors and colored with vegetable juice.
old bottle says sparkling wine with natural flavors and colored with black carrot juice.
both imported from Germany by Baer Beverage. So I’d like to know what’s up, why the change. I will do a taste comparison, but the old one looks better to me🤷♀️
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Hi Marla,
Thanks for visiting my blog! Honestly, I’m not too sure why Aldi’s private label Giambellino would change the ingredients but I suspect that they changed ingredients–like any other food manufacturer–because it’s cheaper to produce it with the new ingredients and/or because the old ingredients became obsolete or too cost-prohibitive for them to continue making it the way that they wanted it to from the very beginning.
Anywho, thanks again for stopping by and make sure that you bookmark my blog and share it with your friends and family! I have more new content in the pipelines so definitely stay tuned and visit back regularly. Cheers!
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