Kosher Critic: Most disappointing wine I have ever drank

As the temperature reached one 100F last Friday, my air conditioning was working overtime to keep my apartment at a livable 76F. In order to avoid straining the machine, my wife Chaia decided it would be best to utilize only the toaster oven and the outdoor grill to make our Shabbat meal.
The logic was that if we refrained from turning on the oven, we would not cause the AC to battle yet another heat source. I quickly created a menu that lent itself to this endeavor and went shopping for the ingredients. I came back with the makings for chicken wings, grilled mini pizzas with dried beef, roasted chickpea salad and an Asian slaw.
As I prepped the ingredients, I realized that the only wines I had in the house were big bold reds and that the meal I was putting together needed something a little more refreshing. I jumped back in my car and went down the block to my local liquor store to pick up what I felt was a more appropriate wine. My intent was to grab a Prosecco, a dry sparkling white wine from Italy. I have always found Prosecco to be very refreshing and possessing just enough fruitiness to balance the flavor with the dryness of the wine. But there was not a Prosecco to be had and so I needed to find a suitable replacement. That was how I came to purchase the Hafner Vineyards Sparkling Riesling. The wine was in an alluring long necked bottle filled with a pale honey colored wine.