There are times, when I drink more and there are, naturally, times when I drink less. The last Champagne year wasn't as filled with Champagne as others were, but I was not dry.
This year, I also started using Riedel's Veritas Champagne glass which I had tested before and the results couldn't have made drinking Champagne more enjoyable.
There are few wines that I thought were exceptional, but one really stood out. Champagne Lallier Grand Rose Grand Cru. In a few words the aromas that just punched me when I first drank it were of pure strawberry and mint. An odd combination, but it worked.
I cannot ignore that I had another bottle of Pierre Peters Blanc des Blancs but because of my biased expectations on the day I drank it, I could not declare it as the Champagne of the year.
Although the day to celebrate this remarkable tipple is a few days behind, still, if you can, indulge in a bottle of Lallier!
Alone but never lonely!
Drink, think and believe Champagne.
p.
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Monday 4 February 2019
GUSBOURNE ROSE - ENGLISH FIZZ
Given the experience of this tipple, I shall be very brief.
The blurb of the producer that the wine feel like English summer, 'strawberries and apples', did make me wonder: 'they must buy the strawberries in Tesco and in January'.
Sadly, this wine had a price tag of a Champagne, but it was no (-where-near) Champagne (quality).
Won't be rushing into buying one anytime soon, if ever.
Wednesday 23 January 2019
NON-CHAMPAGNE ENTRY - BUT - QUARTET - AKA ROEDERER ESTATE (USA) NV
Well well! For anyone interested in drinking wine, it is always nice to drink something interesting.
Quartet, which is what in Europe is the same cuvee as in the USA, Roederer Estate became my companion on one evening. I have known this wine for a few years. I drank it a few times as a good alternative, in fact a cheaper one, to a decent Champagne; for your information, this 'excuse' developed around 2008 when I finally managed to lay my hands on my first bottle and drank it.
Since then, I had had it a few times and somehow, quiet possible for drinking just Champagne, this fizz, outside of our glamorous patch, definitely impressed my palette and encouraged me to write about it.
Quartet (EU), Roederer Estate (USA) is a Chardonnay dominated blend from California, had indeed, redefined the concept of a new world fizz.
At first the wine has a wonderfully lively nose of citrus. Though, that is, what I remember it to be; today's bottle, however, seems a little more aged.
Slight buttery notes with a hint of toasted hazelnuts and dried apricots, green and red apples where you think that only cinnamon is missing to complete a complete strudel taste leaves one wondering. The outstanding balance in respect of the taste is a testament to the excellence of blending skills from Louis Roederer.
That is however, at best, unsurprising; their skill to deliver on excellence is imbued in the name itself, but...
... what a fizz!
It didn't even need to come from Champagne!
Alone, but never lonely!
Drink, live and think Champagne.
hmmm, this wine shows a remarkable aging potential. The layers!!!!!
Peter
Quartet, which is what in Europe is the same cuvee as in the USA, Roederer Estate became my companion on one evening. I have known this wine for a few years. I drank it a few times as a good alternative, in fact a cheaper one, to a decent Champagne; for your information, this 'excuse' developed around 2008 when I finally managed to lay my hands on my first bottle and drank it.
Since then, I had had it a few times and somehow, quiet possible for drinking just Champagne, this fizz, outside of our glamorous patch, definitely impressed my palette and encouraged me to write about it.
Quartet (EU), Roederer Estate (USA) is a Chardonnay dominated blend from California, had indeed, redefined the concept of a new world fizz.
At first the wine has a wonderfully lively nose of citrus. Though, that is, what I remember it to be; today's bottle, however, seems a little more aged.
Slight buttery notes with a hint of toasted hazelnuts and dried apricots, green and red apples where you think that only cinnamon is missing to complete a complete strudel taste leaves one wondering. The outstanding balance in respect of the taste is a testament to the excellence of blending skills from Louis Roederer.
That is however, at best, unsurprising; their skill to deliver on excellence is imbued in the name itself, but...
... what a fizz!
It didn't even need to come from Champagne!
Alone, but never lonely!
Drink, live and think Champagne.
hmmm, this wine shows a remarkable aging potential. The layers!!!!!
Peter
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