I posted a question on champagne in the March timeframe if you search on this forum.

Perrier Jouet is not only a fantastic champagne it is an absolutely beautiful bottle and gift presentation. If someone presented you a PJ bottle you would have a wow factor.

Dom Perrignon is nothing special but a name in my opinion. Not bad just so many better options out there.

Delliff86 said:

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This is one of my favorites that I've had as far as champagne goes.

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The hotel gifted us a bottle of Ruinart when we arrived. Not the Dom label but the Brut label. Rather enjoyed it.

Delliff86 said:

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Vincent Jordant is great too,
My wife is in a bubbles club that has a bunch of grower champagne.

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There's a lot of fantastic grower champagnes out there. The problem is finding a distributor willing to bring it here because the quantities are smaller.

Is this a mail-order club? If so, do you mind sharing the name? I may be interested.

I haven't been able to find one since, but living outside Victoria doesn't offer you much.

Yup it's We drink bubbles, from what it looks like Shiloh, the owner, has or her family with a storage facility in Cali.

From the way she talks she is pretty tight with quite a few growers over there.

https://wedrinkbubbles.com

Fat Cork is another option for grower champagnes

My wife and I were talking over the weekend about just making a trip to Beaune every couple of years to stock up on Burgundy. It's by far my favorite wine region, but it seems like the 1er and Grand Cru wines are getting harder to get in the US without spending a small fortune.

Grower champagnes pop up fairly regularly on Last Bottle and WTSO.

Awesome!

Ruth's Cris in downtown

Where are you staying?

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Delliff86 said:

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Vincent Jordant is great too,
My wife is in a bubbles club that has a bunch of grower champagne.

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There's a lot of fantastic grower champagnes out there. The problem is finding a distributor willing to bring it here because the quantities are smaller.

Is this a mail-order club? If so, do you mind sharing the name? I may be interested.

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you mean importer, since distributors don't necessarily have that license, and in most cases don't. Adds to the complication, you need an importer that will work with the grower/producer and then they need a distribution partner.

went to a tasting last night with a very small champagne producer. less than 3,000 bottles of their flagship vintage champagne made in the years that they make it. Not even a spoilage quantity in comparison to Dom or other huge labels.

We went to hospice de Beaune last weekend and stayed at an air bnb.

We have been in St Emilion all week staying at Hotel de Pavie.

Off to Marrakech tomorrow.

Lots of options that you can't really find in the US and they will ship to you, it's totally worth it and the town is great.

I really like the town. The food options are great, and I can spend hours going through the wine shops there.

For sure, lots of cool bottles and old burgundy you just never see in the states. I feel the same way about st emilion wine shops and they lets you taste so many bottles before You purchase.

Any guesses on the Last Bottle Mystery 3 pack:

100-point winemaker (many times over) who has crafted wines at top-growth Bordeaux estates as well as some of Napa's most cult-y wineries.

- 100% cabernet sauvignon for each, made in the same fashion, and held to the same rigorous standards…so you can decide which terroir reigns supreme!
- The Rutherford vineyard stands next to Sloan, the St. Helena property next to Joseph Phelps, and the Pritchard Hill location sits on the western edge of the prized hill a stone's throw from Ovid, Colgin, Brand, and more.

I'm not sure which of you super-sleuths can guess just what winery, and exactly which top Napa winemaker crafted these stunning beauties (ok, bonus hint of the extra obscure variety: gruyere cheese)!

Thinking its Hall?

I was thinking Beau Vigne, but I am not sure if their winemaker has a 100 pt score?

Edit: Wineberserker thinks its Debate: https://www.thedebatewine.com/

ATL Aggie said:

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I was thinking Beau Vigne, but I am not sure if their winemaker has a 100 pt score?

Edit: Wineberserker thinks its Debate: https://www.thedebatewine.com/

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That would make sense. The Debate has been on there a few times before.

Edit - Well, y'all lured me in. Just purchased.

Sweet! Promontory is good stuff for sure

Congrats!

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Tonight's wine from Morocco's "finest producer" of red wine. A Shiraz from the northwest region on the country.

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Interesting. Curious to hear how it was.

I'm curious if any of yall ever use a coravin.

I have one, and it sits in a drawer. It only works on natural corks, and those are fewer and farther between on less expensive wines these days

I've actually used it a couple of times on Diam style corks and it's worked fine. Definitely not ideal for those though.

I like it but it got way more usage when my wife was pregnant than it does when she is not.

It was a very easy drinking wine. Not a lot of depth but the experience of enjoying this wine in morrocco over a tajine of beef cheeks and couscous was pretty cool. If you told me it was a South African Shiraz at a $50 price point I would have believed you. Enjoyable

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Are y'all fans of CL butaud?

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I had a carbonic Sangiovese from them that I really enjoyed a year or so ago. On that same note, they made a Carbonic Counoise that I really hated.
I like that they make traditional wines but also experiment with things.

Blanc de noirs is my favorite, Randy and Brooke are awesome as well. I had been saving a 2015 temp and while house sitting my MIL drank it. Randy pulled one out of his personal collection for me.

Picked this up in a whim. Fantastic.

Had a couple of these Friday night at a restaurant. Was fantastic