How Should We Be Tasting Champagne? | Wine Folly
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2020
- Learn how to critically taste Champagne with Wine Folly's Madeline Puckette. In this tasting we try the 2006 "Palmes d'Or" Champagne by Nicolas Feuillatte and dig into "what is quality?"
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We created a guide on how to choose Champagne and explain some of the terms I speak about casually in this video. Terms like "residual sugar" or "dosage" refer to sparking winemaking methods. Be sure to check out more about Champagne in the link above on Wine Folly!
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I love the idea of posting the wine prior to posting a tasting so people can taste along. Thanks Robin Tang for the suggestion! We'll try to figure this out :)
I love you from Kuwait
I dig this idea too! A wine that is nationally distributed and a good value price point would allow the masses to participate! In vino veritas!
if i can get the same wine, im down to tasting too
Wait! Wrong glass?
"Which is a lot of money for something you're gonna pee out." I love that!!! LOL
Dude i wheezed when she said that HAHA
Lol right!
I love how entertaining you are when you are tasting. So authentic, just love you, Madeline! Thank you for all of your content.
You are so welcome!
I’d love to see you compare some of the more popular champagnes and the different vintages of them
Question: How Should We Be Tasting Champagne?
Answer: Yes.
Yes exactly.
Nicky Fu, you crack me up. Love your videos. I have a 2006, guess it’s time to open that bad boy. Paid a lot less, but it’s been loitering in my cellar for a while.
I love all the work you do for the wine punters and puntets out their in the world!!! You have helped me imensely.
This was great! More like this please. It’s nice to hear you go through your thought process jn a bit more detail.
I loved every second of this vid! Great job. still smiling
Charming presentation, thank you 💝
Great video!
your channel is amaaazing
OMG I just drank tbis last week!
Thanks for the entertainment I'd love to have you over so we could start drinking through cellar!
I recommend the Bollinger PN cause it tastes vintage but has those fine bubbles/mousse that you want
Thanks for the lesson and for the honesty. I myself taste wines and sometimes I think about if I talk about something that isnt The way I would like or get quiet about that feature. It is good to see you puting The cards on The table. I Will Keep that in mind.
Since we show respect to The producers, we can talk about something it isnt ok. That is our job...
🙂
"Holy hand grenade bottle!" 😂
I know. I'd have to go on record saying she's a Monty Python freak.
It's really fun to watch your videos. Here are two quotes from this video: 1) "...which is a lot of money for something you're gonna pee out" 2) "... it kind of looks like pee..." ;););)
Some people need to follow customary laws of "proper" wine tasting/pairing; often bending the rules can be a declaration of war, but you have a free spirit backed up by considerable knowledge, ergo I love your posts.
Thank you!
Cheers!
I declare war... inadvertently... on a daily basis. Confidence comes from knowledge, not from 'saying it right.'
Tastes like cider. I look for mocha coffee after taste. Serve with chopped dried fruits and sunflower seeds. Charles Heidseick. Lovely.
I'll buy a bourbon or scotch every once and awhile but I haven't been able to spend that much on wine yet, I do like to take bad pinots and mix it with some local concord grape wine for an easy sipper that has some sweetness
Hahah this is def not what I expected the wine folly person to sound like! I love it
I’m definitely a bit more classy in written word. 😉
Champagne is a pleasure that most will never get to experience, I mean REALLY good Champagne. It’s far too expensive and that is understandable, as the process to produce it is by far more difficult than standard winemaking. It truly is an art. I just wish it was more affordable for us common folk!
Meeeeeee tooooooooo!
I could drink champagne breakfast lunch and dinner!! Love even when it looks like pee!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thanks for everything you do!!!! You’re the best!!
Perfect response. ⭐
You inspired me to delve deep into the Champagne region and I currently possess smth like 15 bottles xD
When I have the same house but different types (brut+sec+demi-sec), should I open them all at once or should I space it over a few days?
0nce again, greetings from Poland!
so why open day before?
and then evaluate the day after?
even if reduced effervescence in first opening
this I don't get for sparkling
answers?
Mi champagne favorito!!!
I think the glass makes a huge difference for champagne, maybe even more than other types of wine.
I thought I didn't like it until I had it from a bigger white wine glass. I know some might disagree with me but I think champagne flutes are a big mistake.
I had a mag of the 1997 at my wedding, and omg it was excellent. My take away with this great angle food cake and baked brie nuance.
great video and how is Perrier Juoet?
Before I knew anything about wine, I always knew all champagnes to me had a grapefruit note to it.
I tried that bottle in 2006 with an older vintage, but unfortunately it was an off bottle so never got to know what it really tastes like :(. The bottle looks badass though.
2002 Billecart-salmon clos Saint Hillare was the best experience I've ever had with champagne...or wine for that matter.
Keith Floyd said it best "direct from the bottle, through a straw, for maximum impact".
I tend to just white wine glasses too, flutes are rubbish although I quite like a coupe for some 1920s flair.
@Mauriice Kiing Which is fine, but I'm talking about how I drink sparkling wine.
I think you’d had a few glasses to drink before this tasting.
Very entertaining
Haha!
I would love to see you review Torrentes from Argentina
What time?
I don’t like tart champagne too shocking for my senses. However I love a buttery liquid croissant tasting Champagne. It’s usually a vintage such as Veuve Clicqout Thank you 😊
Please review Penfolds wines 🙂
My barometer for Champagne is Moet. It has a classic and consistent flavor and averages about $40-$45 a bottle. Twice that price does not mean you will get a wine thats twice as good imho. That being said, any noticeable improvement beyond Moet is a compliment and likely worth the extra cost.
This wine is much better than Moet basic. If you're looking to branch out, maybe try Deutz Brut Classic (around same price)
@@Winefolly Yes, I have had Deutz many times and I agree. Thanks Madeline! PS. I love your book Wine Folly. I give copies out as gifts.
Expensive & good champagne is like a good balanced white (rose) wine with super fine mousse. A mousse that foams up on entry (like a german beer) and a wine that tastes of many fruits and lemon tart with fresh lemon. Not overly yeasty. Once you taste a flavour and when you look for more of the same thing, it holds steady and does not dominate other flavours. Next sip may give you a different flavour and again does not dominate. It has many flavours but none dominates. To me it is balanced. It sounds like something that has no defined character and uninteresting but oh boy it is a joy to drink and soothes the mind because there is no one flavour that you have to fight against on each sip.
a champagne doesn't need to be expensive to be good.
She is feeling good on this video.
I’d like to see you compare the 2008.
you got one for me? ;)
I loved the Monty Python reference!
Wen you will test marzani from cantina deidda champagne method sardegna italy
Cantina Deidda 'Marzani Fleur' looks like an interesting wine to explore, unfortunately, I don't see it available outside of Italy and Japan.
Is there Brut Nature Champagne?!🍾 I am yet to encounter one.🤔🤷🏼♂️
The Cote de Bar region in Champagne has a few of them. Pretty sure Champagne Drappier makes one. Also, not Champagne, but I've noticed a lot of the warmer climate sparkling wine regions (e.g. Franciacorta, Cava, Oltrepo Pavese) have more no-dosage wines.
Hey, I dont know if you have anyplace selling brazilian wine At US, but there is an awesome brut nature made in Brasil. It is Cave Geisse Brut Nature. It is made At Garibaldi, inside The Vinyards Valley DOC (Vale dos Vinhedos in portuguese).
I saw an interview with a Master of Wine where He was asked about wich Wine in Brasil He would highlight. He didnt blinked to answer Cave Geisse.
Super movie
What is some good quality stemware?
Zalto is what many sommeliers will recommend but Riedel is solid and not as fragile/expensive.
Very nice presentation but I don't think adding sugar to champagne is cheating. That's why there's a whole system of sweetness levels, no?
Yep, there's a whole system. And, in Champagne sweetness in grapes is very hard to come by. Still, the idea of zero dosage or "brut nature" has become very compelling to somms and other wine folks I've talked to. I think it goes along with this whole movement towards "what is natural" and "purity" that has wine people all stirred up. Still, some of these wines are so lean, they will clean the enamel right off your teeth!
she is f'd up tipsy. lol, lol. very entertaining.
Conn Creek AVA series wines from Napa
oooooOOoo I should contact them, that sounds like fun.
Hey Maddy, I've always been of the opinion that champagne is for drinking; reds are for tasting. Maybe it's my bad, but I don't want too much complexity in a sparkling wine of any kind. It seems out of place, wasted. However, I remember the first time (in about 1979) when I drank a glass of Perrier-Jouet flower-bottle champers. It rocked my world because I had no idea (having grown up tasting only cheap, banquet champagne) how exquisite a premium champagne could be. So, there's that. Today, a Schramsberg or Gruet goes down well and has a pleasant and rewarding flavor, plus a healthy carbonation that lasts through the bottle. But, hey, as soon as I win the Lotto, I'll get back to you on the $130/bottle stuff.
Agreed!
I have my fingers crossed for you! (win lotto = drink more prestige champagne)
Personally I drink more Franciacorta than Champagne. Less sugar, usually less than 3 gram/l, and and the quality of these wines is generally very high. And of course it doesn't hurt that it costs a fraction of what you pay for the privelege of having the name 'Champagne' on the label.
only 5% of Franciacorta is exported worldwide good luck finding it...ps its also not cheap
Nonsense. I have never had any trouble finding it, and it is very cheap compared to most champagnes.
I think not, clearly your drinking over priced big branded champangne houses probably using grand cru or vintage to justify how over priced champange is and comparing that to Franciacorta, small family run Champagne house's are very affordable! Down this avenue you can obtain a bottle from £15 and a grand cru at £30, and when i say its hard to get...well maybe you can.....because your merchant has a bottle or two or you use a wholeseller with a vast portfolio, but an normal person in there local town will not have that luxury, one thing i will add is Franciacorta is on par in terms of quality with the region of Champange and should be on any ones fizz wish list.
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We should taste together! Cheers from your friends at JCB.
heck yea!!!
Bill and Ted meets Jancis Robinson
"does the curtain match the carpets" :-P
Ha!!! LOOK AT THAT. PEE
Do you chief before these videos. 🤘❤
Awesome
only when I make videos
How should we be tasting champagne? Well, depending on the company and the circumstances, ideally naked...
You make me laugh
*Wine Folly* Omg I'm FIRST !!!
Anyone that says zappy bubble finesse must be okay
I used to touch electric fences for sport as a pre-teen.
Wine Folly oh boy, that could explain some things...
The answer is with orange juice in it.
Champagne ---> Pee?? Absolutely the wrong comparison. If you really want a fantastic Champagne mousse then give just about any wine from Laurent-Perrier a try. Even their older vintage Champagnes like the Brut Millesime 2008 are an effervescent delight. How can this be? In Champagne and sparkling wine production the bottles are not sealed with a cork during secondary fermentation in the bottle. They are sealed with a crimped-on cap. The date for Champagne that is most important is when it was disgorged. This is the process where the lees are removed (popped out after freezing them into a plug in the neck of the bottle), the dosage added, and then the bottle is sealed with a cork. For the Laurent-Perrier Brut Millesime 2008, it was disgorged in 2018 with a dosage of 8g of sugar. So just because a Champagne has been aged a long time doesn't mean it has lost a lot of its bubbles. The clock really starts ticking from the date the wine was disgorged. If your Champagne or sparkling wine is lacking in bubbles, it is most likely the result of production processes and not because of a cork seal...unless you are buying Champagne to cellar at home for years and years and years...which I do not recommend. There is a lot of variation among producers in the character and texture of the mousse in Champagnes and sparkling wines.
Well why I am feeling like your drunk and dizzy while shooting video....😅 Or else video was sooo cheerful and yess the champagne has that pee colour yuk😂
People have pointed out that my sober looks drunk to them. I guess I'm just happy? Pee color isn't bad, especially if you're taking your vitamin B12.. It looks amazing!
Can u tell about 'Blue wines'. And we get a video about it, it would be helpful.
Also, focus on small producers of Champagne.... Not brand
"Nicky feu," ..... seriously? and Montagne de Reims ...... just be negociant
u seemed 2 b slightly drunk while evaluating this wine
Oh no no!! She's just 3 glasses down 😂
LOL! Its funny because a lot of people think that at first, but that's actually her normal self and personality. I thought the same when I first started following, but nope, she's just a little goofy and fun with lots of knowledge and info.
Actually, that's how I am. But nice to know my sober looks drunk to you ;)
@@Winefolly I agree. Normally you look fine in your videos. This one i also felt like you've had a bottle already! ;-) But I dont mind it
i like the prestige tasting. not a fan of some of the colorful jokes.
Sorry, I worked in a restaurant in Reno, Nevada. BOH has made me a bit tarnished and crass... and I kinda love it. Don't mean to offend! Hope you can laugh it off :)
Thou shalt not count two, nor shall thou count four.....................
For $130 a bottle, it better be the best champaign I've ever had. Good grief 🙄. The direction they need to go is slashing the price.
I mean. when we're talking the amount of effort they put into cellaring this wine for 14 years. that's still less than $10 a year. Time = money. You should have seen my thoughts on a very flat $7000 bottle of Champagne. This is still good value.
@@Winefolly yikes! I'm interested in what picks you're going to put together for a case that you mentioned in your recent video. I may have to sell I kidney though. :)
Have you seen the "wine folly" video on prices and the market? She does an awesome rant about price controls, (trump's) tarrifs as well as quality control differences between Producers. She also, as a sommelier, caters to more affluent restaurant. For me, La Veuve Cliquot (at about $70) is splurging, but I also buy it because I like to support women in wine, and "La Veuve" was one of the first
Okay.....your cut off there young Lady lol
At first I thought I did a bad job editing, then... I was thinking maybe you stopped the video.... and then I realized that you actually just think I'm drinking! haha. This is actually how I am bone dry. (well, by the time that video ended, I DID have 3 sips!)
Did they pay you to be nice? Your actual description sounds very unpleasant, but you end up endorsing the plonk at 130. a bottle. Just saying...
No money exchanged hands. They did not pay me! as I said in the video… something like "it was not the best prestige Champagne I've ever had" You'll find that I'm very honest with wine tastings, but I don't like to throw producers under the bus unless there is something really fundamentally / technically wrong. After all, it's more about the learning experience than giving a wine review. Get me?
She rehearsed this so much she is now drunk 🤨
"Looks like pee" is not a selling point. :)
It could be! That really depends on who you are! silly! ;)
@@Winefolly - Your sense of humor is one of the many reasons I keep coming back. ;)
It absolutely is a selling point lol.
It is for me :)
Probably wasn’t the best idea to compare champagne to urine😂😂😂
No motivation to drink pee😅
It's got electrolytes!
Absolutely wasted
_"How Should We Be Tasting Champagne ?"_ Only as a gift. Overpriced posh nonsense.