Wine Appreciation / Oenophiles

cheers... I'll have a look if I make the trip next year.

We sell direct worldwide.
We have stocks in France & in the UK.

It's only my brother Baptiste & I so it very much human scale.

The price will be better if it's France->France - email me on champagne@lasseaux.com & I'll send you the french price list (which is lower than the website)

Nice one, I'll ping you an email now.

I feel like this is a good place to ask, I'm actually spending a few days in Champagne in December. Can we visit? Any other good places to drop into?

It all depends on your budget & how mobile you are.

Taxis to visit champagne houses outside Reims or Epernay are around 50€ each way - making it unviable for most.

The large Champagne houses have fantastic tours so we generally recommend to visit them. The cost of cellar visits have increased a lot recently, so expect to pay from 60€ & up for each visit with 2 samples.

For us, we do do visits, but they are more on the technical side - cellar & vineyard work - so they do not appeal to all.

If budget allows, I would recommend staying here:
https://royalchampagne.com/

Your visits sound much more interesting than most winery tours I've been on.

I'm surprised you've not had offers of help with harvest or winter cleanup.

I'm surprised you've not had offers of help with harvest or winter cleanup.

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Ah nice. It would be a fun holiday if it didn't mean doing a tax return and having to deal with work visas.

Getting involved, November tasting session before deciding what to buy for Christmas.

Just smashed the pole position brut with pizza. Very impressed straight out of the gate!

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excellent work!

Getting through 6 bottles before Christmas is good going

Serious training. I approve.

Tasting session is all open at the same time!

We got them on Friday and we've had half so that's not a bad effort.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/heidsieck-co-monopole-blue-top-brut-champagne-75cl

apparently it’s reduced to £17 with nectar card and if you get 6 then an extra 25% off, so something like £13 per bottle. Which seems pretty good value! In store only until Sunday

waitrose has 25% off six bottles at the moment, this proper fucks me off as I only want one bottle preferably on a decent promotion, however it forces me to get outside that range and this is pretty good at £15

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I haven't loads of experience but Épernay was a great visit when we went in June. Did the cellar tour at Charles Mignon, which was fairly interesting and had a bit of tasting. Hautvilliers up the hill was delightful and at that point you are almost half way to Vince's and a very manageable ride.

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Finished off the last couple of bottles of Lasseaux champagne over the weekend, I can't recommend them highly enough, certifiable bangers all of them.

The blanc de blancs is probably the best champagne my wife and I have ever had. She's French so you don't just have to rely on the recommendation of a gravy drinking Yorkshireman.

Ordered a couple of boxes to the in laws for Christmas, get involved people, still time to get those christmas orders in!

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"Cashies", bro :)

Anyone had a good drop today?

Had a 2016 Hatzidakis Skitali and 2013 La Togata for Starter/dinner - followed by a 2018 Radikon Slatink and a 2016 Fontodi Flaccianello. Solid variety.

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Nice - do like a good Montalcino

Basic bitch Bordeaux here:

Chateau Cissac Haut Medoc and a Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes

Both very good imo

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What’s the Cissac like? I saw it on wine soc I think. I Fancy tucking into a bottle of Sauternes but I’m the only one who will drink it, so will save for NYE

03 Beaucastel - holding up well but probably time to drink up now
09 Mas de Daumas Gassac - lovely when first opened but faded quite quickly
12 JL & E Burguet Gevrey-Chambertin "Mes Favorites" - lovely, very lovely, sadly the last bottle
03 Ch Rieussec Sauternes - as above, so good.

Apologies, was meant to be in reply to #tenderloin

There were others but lost among the wreckage

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This was a Wine Society one https://www.thewinesociety.com/product/half-bottle-of-chateau-suduiraut-sauternes-2019/

Would recommend if it wasn’t now out of stock