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- wdonovan - 07-14-2009

(Happy Bastille Day).

What will you be opening?
Wife will be cooking something (unknown now at 10 AM) French. We have been poking at the Bordeaux, opting for less serious (cheaper) wines lately. However I have steered completely away from the Champagne racks other than a couple crisp summery NV bruts. Haven't sabered the neck off a vintage bubbly in months. I'm thinking 85 'Charlie' Oenetheque or a 99 Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque (aka Fleur de Champagne) but the Blanc de Blancs in the clear flower bottle. This is maybe my favorite wine in my cellar. I think I have only 3 left so I may chicken out and take the sword to the Chas. Either way, it will involve some serious cutlery.

Et vous?


- wondersofwine - 07-14-2009

I passed on two Bastille Day celebrations in Raleigh restaurants tonight. I will open either a Rhone white or a red Burgundy.


- VouvrayHead - 07-14-2009

I was planning on taking a day off today, but you might have convinced me... I think I will storm my cellar in search of sating my Loire-phillic ways with a 2007 Clos Roche Blanche Gamay (Touraine).

The wine store across the river in Columbia, Illinois I mentioned a while back has a lot of Louis/Dressner stuff, which I can't get in Missouri. I've been exploring their wines and have been super impressed. Definitely my style of drink.


- wdonovan - 07-15-2009

"I will storm my cellar" [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

The day took some really unexpected twists that had us dining with wife's grandparents. We brought ingredients & cooked there but I had no time to hit my cellar & properly chill a great wine. So I grabbed a cold Roederer NV from my local but stopped home anyway (very determined) & got a 98 Jacquart Mosaique BdB. I threw the bottle and ice in an ice bucket and put the bucket in an insulated wine bag. It chilled on the passenger floor as I drove (ala Ayrton Senna) to dinner. Dinner was lobster en papiote (baked with fennel leaves, orange, and a splash of Chardonnay) with Cognac cream sauce, rice pilaf, baby asparagus. Washed down with the Jacquart.

This wine is an unusual (maybe exceptional?) balance of old grace meets youthful exhuberance. An elegantly mature yeast forward nose and a vibrant fruit driven palate. Neither upstages the other. I wish I had bought a train full but scavenged up about a case. 5 left.

BTW One regret... very small car.... hypersonic speeds..... no place to hide a sword.... I opened the wine by hand. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/frown.gif[/img] [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/frown.gif[/img]
All's not lost though as it has given me an idea for holiday-specific opening methods. Veterans Day I think I'll shoot the top off and next 4th of July may involve dynamite.


- winoweenie - 07-15-2009

Very innovative and imaginative. I usually just put the neck in the door jam and slam that sucker. WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img]


- Thomas - 07-15-2009

Nice to know there's another Jacquart fan out there. Although large, a pretty consistent producer--and I hear their vineyards supply some of the top brands.

As for opening the bottle--in a small car, all you had to do was to find a big bump to go over...


- wondersofwine - 07-15-2009

I'm stuck on the lobster in papiote. Sounds merveilleux!