Wine Appreciation / Oenophiles

Getting ready for some serious red wine double magnum action tonight.

Sadly, I will be serving it, not drinking it.

Might need to have a cheeky tester, just to make sure its OK ;)

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Probably done to death, but:
What’s a good rational solition for storing an opened bottle over night to finish it up tomorrow or over the next two days?
What kind of plug?

You want to take the air out of the bottle. There’s plenty of solutions on amazon. Cap it and pump out the air. Good for a day or two

TK Max have Riedel decanters for £20 at the moment in case anyone was on the look out

@ChasnotRobert they have quite a few in the Leyton store

decent - will try to get down there; thanks!

And if you need Champagne for your events, I can come and serve it.

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Phwoooaaarr xx

You should go on a dating show

Hi all,

I am all stocked up pre-Brexit and pre-excise duty increase (which is happening 1st Feb 2019) so let me know if need Champagne.

Current vintage in 75cl is 2013 - grape blend 50% Chardonnay, 25% Pinot Meunier, 25% Pinot Noir.
Vintage in 150cl magnums is 2008 (very limited)
Blanc de Blancs 2011 75cl- that's 100% Chardonnay.

I also have a new online invoicing system so you / the recipient can pay remotely using any card.

I am now based in New Cross but cycle across London and can post too!

Vince

Hi Vince,

I hope you're very well. Finally moving into my first house the weekend with my other half so it would be nice to celebrate with a drop of fizzy bubbly. I'm interested. Please could you PM me the details?
Thanks,
Joe

PMs replied.

Also happy to receive business leads if you think of something!

Had an amazing private tasting of Cretan wines at Oinoxoos House. We tried red, whites, a port style and a non sweet Muscat. The standout was the Dafni which tastes like nothing I've ever had before, super herbaceous.

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Nice!

One of my favourite Rosé’s recently was a 2017 Rosé de Xinomavro, Thymiopoulos

Don’t think I’ve ever had a Cretan wine - love it when you try something new and you find a totally new taste.

I thought this might be of interest here.

We are looking for people to help us during the harvest.

Dates to be confirmed but likely to be mid September.

We are one of the last family growers to offer food, accommodation and more importantly Champagne.

Send me a message if you are interested in joinjng the team!

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We are currently working on our rebranding to help us increasing our international sales.

Our Champagne is still the same, just a new look that is more appealing to international distributors (we are told!).

We are also launching a new cuvée which is matured in oak casks, made from oak trees which grew in our village.

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I like the new typeface.

The vintage is called "match play"? That's a bit odd.

Will you be doing any demi-sec? I keep wanting to buy some of yours but my girlfriend isn't so keen on brut rolls

@ChasnotRobert

Our current labels were deemed too bland for shops / importers / distributors so although the Champagne was liked by all, the labels were not.

The marketing agency indicated that each cuvée should have a name in order to appeal to certain categories of international buyers.

All names are sport related.

Brut & Rosé are Pole Position
Vintage is Match Play
Blanc de Blancs is Flèches d'Argent
Bled Rosé is Triple Couronne
The new cuvée is Circuit Boisé

@leggy_blonde

We still do Demi-Sec, as it is only a question of dosage.

Dosage’ is the last step before final corking. This is the addition of a small quantity of ‘liqueur de dosage’ to the wine – also known as the ‘liqueur d’expédition’

So while our Brut is dosed at just below 7gr/l (so on the edge of Extra-Brut ), the Demi-Sec is dosed at 32gr/l.

For reference, the quantity added varies according to the style of Champagne:

• doux more than 50 grams of sugar per litre
  
• demi-sec 32-50 grams of sugar per litre
  
• sec 17-32 grams of sugar per litre
  
• extra dry 12-17 grams of sugar per litre
  
• brut less than 12 grams of sugar per litre
  
• extra brut 0-6 grams of sugar per litre
  
  

I have 2x bottle of demi-sec in London stock at the moment if you fancy them!

I'll take them! I'll send you a DM with my number as I can't remember which medium we last conversed in

Is this a specialist wine and spirits marketing agency? not sure I'm 100% behing the diffrerent names like that.

I'm actually off to a champagne tasting tonight throught ethe Champagne Academy - it is the 16 big houses - PR, Moet, Krug etc

Yeah, I was thinking the same...

Not sure about the cock either.

@PQR - It is a wine & spirit marketing agency yes.

Something we like might not be in line with what the export market wants.
We like our current classic labels but unfortunately, export finds them bland & generic so do not want to get them on shop shelves.

We are a small grower Champagne vineyard with a current production of around 20,000 bottles with the potential to grow to 40,000.

We find it difficult to sell the current production as our B2B sales are currently low.
All importers / distributors want very low prices for not even large volumes - this would mean that we would effectively work for free or release Champagne of a lesser quality, which we would never do.

@umop3pisdn The rooster on our best selling Brut gives the international french touch, while the new "Pole Position" name indicates that although this is our entry level Champagne, it is already ahead of the pack in terms of quality.

I just need the wine buyer for Goodwood Festival of Speed to like it!

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That tasting sounds good!

If you could get me the details of the organiser, I will try to see if they are interested in having us at a future tasting.

If you see the Veuve Clicquot rep - say hi for us, they have taken a large share of our sustainably grown Meunier grapes this year!

Is Beaujolais Nouveau worth the 80s hype? Or just there for city-lunch bragging?

I got re-gifted a bottle once that was 3 years old....