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00:12 Five things on a bottle of Champagne
00:20 Champagne Sweetness
00:25 Champagne sweetness chart (Brut, etc)
00:46 styles of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs, etc)
01:44 vintage vs non-vintage (NV)
02:21 Premier Cru vs Grand Cru
03:01 types of Champagne brands
04:11 Wine club teaser
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27 Comments
Are you in Seattle? The first retail location looked a lot like Esquin.
Best if you can make available periodic addendum to the wine folly book on noteworthy vintages.
perfect little cherries…..
Thank you. Short succinct and informative, with all major themes covered.
I think that is my favorite belly button.
Should have come up with a video before new year eve😂
Great video! If you come to the Langhe we'd love to show you around!
This was a nice primer but I would have been hoping for longer video. Millesimes are generally for special use as they are more expensive. On the cheapest level regular non-vintage (NV) can be 20€ and millesime 21€, but with bigger brands NV is 50€ and millesime 80€, and prestige 150€.
I could eat a peach for hours.
Thanks for the info, but that did not provide a lot of help on how to pick a bottle. More info on flavor profile and food matching would help. Cheers 🥂!
I love your wine clips and I learn a lot from them!! Keep up the good work😊
Think you may be a bit off on the cru designation in champagne, what you’ve described is more the system from burgundy where specific plots of classified, based on as you described slope, drainage, sun exposure etc.
Believe champagne cru designations are based on whole villages and historical grape prices from that village. So individual sites/climats aren’t designated but entire villages ie. Les mesnil. For this reason I’d def put less stock in champagnes cru classications. As you can have poor sites in villages that still get a grand cru classification.
You get pretty much a similar problem on a smaller scale in burgundy with the grand cru vineyard clos de vougeot where the designated area is just too large for a single classication to accurate encompass all the variation.
Tonight I will be having the Charles Mignon Cuvee Comte de Marne Grand Cru Brut Champagne 🙂 Awesome information, have a safe New Years Eve and a great new year.
The one with money off, usually.
Can you help me in buying your book at a cheaper rate?
Don't choose Champagne. Choose English sparkling wine. Pretty much anything made by Dermot Sugrue will do.
Great to see you featuring the Grower Champagne. What store was that.
I enjoy Champagne so much, that I find the cheaper options often satisfy my needs 🙂 Given the effort required to produce it, I find it relatively good value.
Loved that! Can you suggest some interesting RC producers?
Not all rosé Champagne is made by blending in red wine (rosé d'assemblage). Some e.g. Drappier Rosé are made by allowing the grape juice from Pinot Noir or Pinot Meunier to sit on the grape skins so it absorbs the colour – something that is usually deliberately avoided. This is a rosé de saignée.
Wine Folly book i just love reading it , thank you for sharing knowledge and making it easier :):):)
I am pretty sure 15 months and 3 years are minimum ageing requirements in bottle, not 'en tirage' or on the lees. Also in practice these minimums are vastly exceeded by NV and vintage champagnes 🙂
Well done!
Awesome video! Will you make a new episode focus on Burgundy? Cheers from Beaune
You’re purdy
This was great, very informative, thank you
Happy tasting! And as always Thank you for sharing wine knowledge!