Video: the new year blind Champagne tasting
Here I taste Champagnes blind with brother-in-law William Beavington. Will Krug and Bollinger triumph over much cheaper growers' Champagnes when the label isn't in view? [And there's a nice family new year's toast at the end!]
Labels: blind tasting, Champagne, video
13 Comments:
Lovely Video! Great to see Ann (and Dominic!) Your Bro in law is a legend.
He ought to have mixed the diet coke, the fizz then popped in a sugar cube to sweeten things up a bit...
:-)
David
Great stuff! Definitely my favourite of your videos and inspires me to try and do similar. Well done to Beavington too!
Happy New Year, by the way
great video---pity about the wine!!
excellent video - blind is always best - beavington did well for a total amateur but he is clearly learning fast.
Why on earth do you refer to your brother-in-law by his surname?
All a bit public school, isn't it?
thanks for your kind comments. Referring to b-in-law by his surname is a sort of joke. Besides, I went to a grammar school where we used each others' surnames.
I enjoyed that. I bought a bunch of the Duval-Leroy 2004 too, and thought it was pretty good (esp. for the price £14.99).
I've never been that impressed with Pelorus, vintage or NV - not sure what the big deal about it is.
I find sparkling wine very difficult to judge. A friend of mine summed it up perfectly. He said it's like a good sportsman - they make it look easy. He's right - we had several Champagnes over the holidays and they were all enjoyable...then we had a bottle of Jacobs Creek sparkling wine and it was like a punch in the stomach - it was hideous. Good champagne is about finesse, and it's especially evident when tasted alongside others.
Pelorus is a fantastic wine, and so much better value than most cheap Champagnes.
The only people who would think otherwise are Old World snobs of a certain age who can't accept that New World wines win hands down on value.
Good stuff Jamie. I bought some of the Legras on your recco a few months ago and am looking forward to trying it. Beavington is a natural!
Simon Grant
Frank, I agree that Pelorus is really good - but we tasted it blind here, and it didn't show well. It was the worst wine in the tasting. And we'd have been happy if it had done a lot better.
Simon, glad you got some Legras. It's lovely.
David, glad you liked it.
Alex, look forward to seeing yours. Maybe I should get together with you and we'll serve a couple of wines blind to each other on camera! That would be brave.
Keith, fancy a spot of blind tasting on film?
I think a video of Keith being bribed to drink Champagne could be rather amusing!
Awesome vid! I love blind tastings and when they are of fizz, that much better. Glad two of my faves showed well, the Bollinger and Krug. I'll have to see if the last one (I forget the name) is available here.
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