The vintage Draille The Mas des Cabres: Midi-stroke heart wine
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Dom Perignon
Produced only in exceptional vintages, not in vain has become mythical reference champagne.
We present the two most popular champagnes in this prestigious brand. There are others that we are happy to offer them on demand.
Dom Pérignon Vintage 2000
Aromas
Opening notes of fresh almonds and grapefruit aromas of cashew nuts and spices, lightly toasted brioche final.
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A Glassful of Missouri – Exploring the Weinstrasse
Think of the world’s greatest wine regions and Champagne, Burgundy, Napa and perhaps Chile come to mind. But hidden in the Mid-West is a lesser known, but equally fruitful gem: Missouri. Yes, Missouri. Replete with over 30 wineries, many of them award winning, Missouri is producing some world-class vintages. But whether from lack of marketing or elegant-sounding names, Missouri wines remain virtually unknown to “outsiders”. This was not always the case, however. Prior to prohibition, Missouri was second only to New York in wine production. Settled by German immigrants, the Missouri River Valley with its lush, rolling hills reminded them of their homeland. Therefore, it was there that they put down roots…of the viney kind.
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Visit domaine diebolt vallois - part 2
This batch of top-flight began in the 90s. Is enjoying his regular vintage 1953 company leading experts in the wine that Jacques Diebolt had the idea to remake a vintage according to methods used by his grandfather. Thus, the first vintage flower Passion was 1995.
Only the best parcels of Cramant are used for flower of passion: “the best of the best”. Replanted in the 60s, these vineyards are now very elderly, especially by the standards of the Champagne, and yields are naturally low and complex expressions. The wine is vinified and aged in barrels in order to investigate the complexity, harmony and length.
Visit Domaine Diebolt-Vallois part1
A few miles south of Epernay, Cramant is the first village of the quartet prestigious Cote des Blancs: Cramant - Avize - Oger - Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. It is certainly one of the finest area of Champagne, with its chalky slopes facing east, often topped by a small forest, which plays a thermo regulatory role. Here is the realm of vintage Champagne Blanc de Blancs, Chardonnay which shows one of its finest expressions.
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Hazards at work
In both North and South, it is sometimes funny discoveries by plowing vines. A Cairanne, it is not uncommon to come across huge oyster shells, remains of the time when the sea tickled the slopes of Montmirail. In Chablis, the month Last fishing has been far more dangerous:
“Look what I found so after plowing, when I cut my seedlings,” Thomas laughs Pico lifting at arm’s length … A mortar shell. “Beautiful piece, right? It is the size of my pruning … At least 18 centimeters!”
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Champagne Selosse - Avize part 2
Real Vins of champagne
In the winery, as the vine, Anselm Selosse is a perfectionist and is sparing no effort to better express the identity of its wines.
All parcels are vinified separately in Burgundy barrels. The proportion of new oak remains low in order not to mark the wines too. The departures are a natural fermentation, so no additional external challenge.Juices are not related and are periodically re suspended by stirring. After 8-12 months in barrels, wines continue their farming in tanks or lightning, always on their lees before bottle aging between 3 and 10 years.
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Champagne Selosse - Avize part 1
Undoubtedly, Anselm Selosse became in some twenty years one of the leading figures of Champagne. His experiments, his pursuit of perfection have attracted the interest of the whole profession and, of course, fans like us. This in itself symbolizes the surge qualitative champagne winemakers in recent years.
Created by Jacques Selosse, Father Anselm, the area now totals 7.5 hectares spread over 47 plots. The key is in the heart of the Cote des Blancs (Avize Cramant, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger), vineyards planted with Chardonnay which added a few nice hills pinot noir from the Montagne de Reims Aÿ , Ambonnay and Mareuil-sur-Ay. That land so beautiful.
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Fetzer Vineyards
If you fancy fine wines, are delighted to spend an overnight or more in a cozy bed and breakfast, enjoy walking through acres of flowering and fruiting plants, and find joy in browsing displays of tantalizing foodstuffs or racks of unique gift selections, you will find any or all of the above when you visit the Fetzer Vineyards Tasting Room and Visitors Center at Valley Oaks just east of Hopland. And, lest you fear there will be large crowds and little elbowroom, you’d be only half right. People do flock to Valley Oaks, but with 95 acres to ramble around and an enormous picnic area under a cool, leafy trellis, finding quiet paths to stroll and a spot to settle down for a sandwich, salad and a glass of wine is no trick at all.
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Handley Cellars
Six miles west of the tiny town of Philo in Mendocino County the traveler comes to a sign announcing that he/she has arrived at Handley Cellars, where Milla Handley is winemaker. As the great great granddaughter of Henry Weinhard of Oregon brewery fame, Milla must have had some bubbles in her genes and, thinking in terms of wine, not beer, Milla enrolled in fermentation science courses at the University of California at Davis.
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