Every Monday, discover new wines, regions, and ways to understand this fermenting sea.
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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
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Ridgeview Merret Bloomsbury, Sussex 2009
I plunk a bottle on the table. “English Quality Sparkling Wine” the label proclaims. No, that is not a euphemism for beer. It is Ridgeview’s hopeful claim to the crown of Champagne. Odd though it seems, across the Channel, Southern … Continue reading
Posted in Chardonnay, EMPTIED BOTTLES, Sparkling
Tagged Belemnite, british wine, bubbly, Chalk, Champagne, Dom Pérignon, English Channel, Kenelm Digby, méthod ancestrale, Merrett, methode champenoise, Pinot meunier, pinot noir, Ridgeview, Sparkling wine, travel, White cliffs of Dover
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Chenin Blanc “Triple Zéro” Jacky Blot, Domaine de la Taille aux Loups, Montlouis, Loire NV
I’ve wrestled with sugar before. No, not in that way. Grow up. I’ve introduced a dry Lambrusco, a dry rosé, a few dessert wines and fought to keep yeasts converting sugar with my own wines. This week, a wine that … Continue reading
Posted in Chenin Blanc
Tagged 1907, Alcohol by volume, Champagne, chaptalization, chenin blanc, Christian Prudhomme, Domaine de la Taille aux Loups, French wine, Jacky Blot, Lambrusco, Loire Valley, méthod ancestrale, Montlouis, Mouton-Rothschild, Opus One, petillent, Ripeness in viticulture, Sparkling wine production, Sugar, Taille aux Loups, Tours, Triple Zéro, wine, yeast
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