Artisanal Champagne Deep Dive with Edwin Dublin, Wednesday 13th November 2024
Tutored Tastings
Treat yourself, your family or a client to one of our exclusive tutored tastings. One of our experts will guide you through a range of wines or spirits while educating you on the evening’s topic. From style and regional focusses to cheese and wine pairings, these are unmissable chances to broaden your wine and spirits knowledge.
When is a wine ready to drink?
We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.
Not ready
These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.
Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
Although the wine landscape of Champagne is still dominated by huge, multi-national, luxury brands that make enormous quantities of fizz, access to – and, indeed, enthusiasm for – the smaller, more artisanal producers also found in the region has never been greater. Join our resident Champagne expert, Edwin Dublin, for an enlightening tasting showcasing the very best of the Berry Bros. & Rudd portfolio.
Wines to be tasted:
Apéritif: 2017 Champagne Crété Chamberlin, C.D.B, Blanc de Blancs, 1er Cru, Extra Brut
Champagne Marguet, Shaman 20, Grand Cru, Brut Nature
2020 Champagne Clandestin, Boreal, Brut Nature
2012 Champagne Leclerc Briant, Château d'Avize, Blanc de Blancs, Grand Cru, Brut Zéro
2012 Champagne Penet-Chardonnet, Les Champs Saint-Martin, Blanc de Noirs, Grand Cru, Verzenay, Extra Brut
Champagne Pierre Peters, Blanc de Blancs, Grand Cru, Extra Brut
2005 Champagne Tarlant, La Lutétienne, Brut Nature
2017 Champagne Domaine Nowack, Oeuilly, Extra Brut
Champagne Chartogne-Taillet, Les Couarres, Extra Brut
Champagne A. Lamblot, Mouvance, Brut Nature (Base 2017)
Champagne Roses de Jeanne, Côte de Bechalin, Cédric Bouchard (Base 2009)
Champagne Ulysse Collin, Les Maillons, Blanc de Noirs, Extra Brut (Base 2018)
2015 Champagne Larmandier-Bernier, Les Chemins d'Avize, Blanc de Blancs, Grand Cru, Extra Brut
Dress code: smart casual
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