Dinner party advice needed

[Missie]

Having a dinner party. Baked Brie for an appetiser. Need a Champagne. Shrimp for the 1st main course and Chicken Cordon Bleu for the 2nd main course. need wines for those. Flan for dessert. Could you please help me with a Champagne and wine selection for these choices? Thank you!

[mrdutton]

Missie, welcome to the Wine Board. You've asked a good question and I hope I have a decent answer for you. Here goes:

Champagne - go to your local wine dealer and ask him/her for a reasonably priced champagne produced by the grower. Look at the bottom edge of the label on the champagne. Look for the initials: R.M., which means Recoltant-Manipulant: a grower/producer who vinifies, bottles and markets Champagne from the grapes he grows.

Barring that, try Roederer, Schramsberg, Veuve Clicquot (Non-Vintage), Pommeray, or one that I really like which is not a Champagne: Iron Horse Blanc de Blancs Sparkling Wine from California.

For the shrimps go with a French Chablis or any good Sauvignon Blanc or maybe a Kabinett Riesling. For the Chicken Cordon Bleu, go with a good German Spatlese or Spatlese Halbtrocken Riesling.

That's what I would suggest...........except that I missed dessert, so that is why I've edited my entry. I've added the following suggestion:

There have already been many very good posts here on the wine board concerning flan and dessert wines, so try the search feature and enter FLAN as the search item. You will find plenty of suggestions.

[This message has been edited by mrdutton (edited 11-13-2000).]

[Innkeeper]

Bonny Doon Vineyard, Muscat, Vin De Glaciere for dessert.

[wonderer]

I am having a guest over for dinner and his most treasured wine is a 1996 Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon. Do you know where I can find this wine? Or, do you know where I can find more information on it? I have never even heard of it before.

[Innkeeper]

You have a very good friend. The entire production is sold to a mailing list with a long, long list of wannabes. You can sometimes get it at auction for around $1500.00 per bottle.

[chittychattykathy]

Crossed threads? Or my computer?

[winoweenie]

Whas` Happenin??? WW

[Innkeeper]

Methinks Wonderer was just reading this thread, and didn't know better than to just ask his or her question. Methought it was the original poster, so mindlessly answered it.

[winoweenie]

IK and CCK, perwhince her friend may also have heard,read, been told of this stuff and wishes to impress? winoweenie