Bollinger

Cheers Marc Truth be told, dinner would be forgettable were it not for the company I had and the bottle of Bollinger.

.....at two consecutive dinners over a recent weekend. The first featured an immensely enjoyable 2004 Blanc des Millenaires,refreshing ,fruity ,focused and elegant,a welcome prelude to the dinner that followed. The first red served,decanted, was from the

Regular sort of cars, starting with a VW Corporate display From here we went into silly little electric cars and such ... Of course there were some classics that no museum could be without and some fast and fiery red cars A few home-made cars Some boxy be

wines over the CNY weekend----each an example of great wine making The '82 Chateau Lafite was the epitome of elegance,combining the mid-body refulgence of dark fruits ,complexity, with a velvety finish with years to '94 Cask 23 from Stags Leap,stunned wi

of interesting wine and cuisine Dim sum or 'chinese tapas' lunch with the '10 Pucelles' showing it's steely ,minerally and focused fruit flavours---a great developed puligny in its drinking window. The '09 Canon la gaffelerie was approachable with ample f

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Just starting to get interested in Champagne. With an eye towards ramping up quickly, I picked up a copy of The Champagne Guide by Tyson Stelzer and recently read Bursting Bubbles, by Robert Walters, that profiles a few elite independent growers. The latt

Friends, During our Vienna GTG our gracious host Magnus arranged a private visit for our group in the beautiful Omega Boutique located in the prestige’s Stephansplatz. There we were received with open arms, the special Bollinger Omega Cuvee and odours fro

These are a few wines we had at a family dinner in the countryside. We choose the Prieure-Lichine mostly because we thought at 15 we should probably enjoy it before it is too late. It did not disappoint us. Chateau Prieure Lichine Margaux 2001 Sorry about