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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
Tag Archives: Champagne
Have a Happy 2017
Alexandria and I wish you and yours a happy, prosperous, and peaceful new year. May your glasses fill with Champagne for all of 2017. (And try grower Champagne, Marc Hebrart, Blanc de Blancs: dry and taut yet redolent of orchard … Continue reading
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New Year’s Eve 2017 Laurent-Perrier Champagne Profile
Confused by the Champagne shelf? Me too. Prestigious-sounding names blur together. Navigating the cursive fonts, French, shiny labels, crests, colors, and high prices might send you to Prosecco. Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, 2017, Champagne, drink, France, Laurent Perrier, New year, New Years Eve, travel, wine
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Her #WineStory Welcome Alexandria #MWWC29
For the 29th Monthly Wine Writing Challenge (#MWWC29) on the theme WineStory, I submit the WineStory of our just born baby.
My wife and I had different plans for Election Day. Those plans involved drinking Champagne. Instead, our midwife decided it was time, time to bring our baby into the world. Continue reading
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Tagged baby, birth, Champagne, chardonnay, dad, drink, duval-leroy, France, mom, parenting, pinot noir, travel, wine
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2016 Election Day: Drink Champagne
Are you ready to put 2016’s arduous election cycle behind you? Me too. Regardless of who wins, let us treat Tuesday like New Year’s Eve. Finally, we can move on. We can drown our sorrows or celebrate our victories. The only answer: Champagne. Sure, your … Continue reading
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Wine Review: Ravines, Methode Classique Brut, Finger Lakes Sparkling Wine, New York 2006
One should drink bubbly regardless of occasion. But it is my birthday. So I root around in the cellar for a fizzy friend. Bottles of Dom Perginon and Krug tempt me. Yet thirty five does not feel that special (expensive). I turn to something interesting instead:
Ravines, Brut, Methode Classique, Finger Lakes Sparkling Wine, New York 2006 Continue reading
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