Consolidated "Champagne - Questions/Suggestions/Recommendations" thread
Jun 18, 2016, 10:01 am
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Why bother drinking something you don't like? If I'm going to be downing calories, it's going to be on something I enjoy! Like a 1995 Charles Heidsieck Blanc De Millenaires. It is divine! I'm surprised it's available AND decently priced!
Jun 18, 2016, 10:39 am
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I'm going to come to travellingwine's defense and say I've poured a bottle of Veuve down the sink too. It wasn't corked, either. According to my notes, De Vonage Louis XV 1996 and Pommery Louise 1999 got the same treatment. That's also when I learned to ignore Total Wine's "Winery Direct" offerings
Why bother drinking something you don't like? If I'm going to be downing calories, it's going to be on something I enjoy! Like a 1995 Charles Heidsieck Blanc De Millenaires. It is divine! I'm surprised it's available AND decently priced!
Why bother drinking something you don't like? If I'm going to be downing calories, it's going to be on something I enjoy! Like a 1995 Charles Heidsieck Blanc De Millenaires. It is divine! I'm surprised it's available AND decently priced!
That 1995 is a bit hard to find. Too bad, I was curious.
Jun 18, 2016, 12:07 pm
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They were serving Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2004 on my AF JFK-CDG flight this week. ^ Other than the name, you couldn't find two different Champagnes than normal run of the milll VC and VC La Grande Dame.
Jun 18, 2016, 12:09 pm
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I'm going to come to travellingwine's defense and say I've poured a bottle of Veuve down the sink too. It wasn't corked, either. According to my notes, De Vonage Louis XV 1996 and Pommery Louise 1999 got the same treatment. That's also when I learned to ignore Total Wine's "Winery Direct" offerings
Why bother drinking something you don't like? If I'm going to be downing calories, it's going to be on something I enjoy! Like a 1995 Charles Heidsieck Blanc De Millenaires. It is divine! I'm surprised it's available AND decently priced!
Why bother drinking something you don't like? If I'm going to be downing calories, it's going to be on something I enjoy! Like a 1995 Charles Heidsieck Blanc De Millenaires. It is divine! I'm surprised it's available AND decently priced!
Originally Posted by stimpy
They were serving Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2004 on my AF JFK-CDG flight this week. Other than the name, you couldn't find two different Champagnes than normal run of the milll VC and VC La Grande Dame.
Jun 18, 2016, 12:33 pm
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If you tried them both, how were they? Or were you going by reputation?
Jun 18, 2016, 4:00 pm
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Jun 19, 2016, 1:59 am
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Well taste is subjective, and I'm not one to give flowery descriptions such as the robe is this or the notes are that. Objectively the 2004 is a millésime and thus designated as a really good year and stored for aging. That alone will make it taste significantly different. And the House obviously puts special effort into that. And it costs about 5 times as much. 
Jun 22, 2016, 11:53 am
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Jun 23, 2016, 11:38 am
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At the end of a long,hot day with the sun hogging the horizon a perfectly acceptable glass of chilled cava costing a few euros is all I need.
Unless someone else is paying for it the tightwad in me just cannot bring myself to spend a fortune on what is essentially sparkling white wine.
And then to sometimes mix it with orange juice ?
I accept that I might be in the minority in this thread.
Unless someone else is paying for it the tightwad in me just cannot bring myself to spend a fortune on what is essentially sparkling white wine.
And then to sometimes mix it with orange juice ?
I accept that I might be in the minority in this thread.
Jun 23, 2016, 12:58 pm
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At the end of a long,hot day with the sun hogging the horizon a perfectly acceptable glass of chilled cava costing a few euros is all I need.
Unless someone else is paying for it the tightwad in me just cannot bring myself to spend a fortune on what is essentially sparkling white wine.
And then to sometimes mix it with orange juice ?
I accept that I might be in the minority in this thread.
Unless someone else is paying for it the tightwad in me just cannot bring myself to spend a fortune on what is essentially sparkling white wine.
And then to sometimes mix it with orange juice ?
I accept that I might be in the minority in this thread.
Jun 23, 2016, 1:23 pm
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At the end of a long,hot day with the sun hogging the horizon a perfectly acceptable glass of chilled cava costing a few euros is all I need.
Unless someone else is paying for it the tightwad in me just cannot bring myself to spend a fortune on what is essentially sparkling white wine.
And then to sometimes mix it with orange juice ?
I accept that I might be in the minority in this thread.
Unless someone else is paying for it the tightwad in me just cannot bring myself to spend a fortune on what is essentially sparkling white wine.
And then to sometimes mix it with orange juice ?
I accept that I might be in the minority in this thread.