champagne

[Unknown]

Can't remember who's vineyard is it, some Cedric something maybe?

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Where's the tasting note?

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Where's the tasting note?

Tastes like kissing Sharon after she's kissed Peter Liem.

 

[Unknown]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Where's the tasting note?

really, i don't know who's vineyard it is.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by guilhaume:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Where's the tasting note?

really, i don't know who's vineyard it is.

Old timers would tell you they all looked like that.

 

[Oliver McCrum]

Are those little bits of plastic?

Mulch?

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Oliver McCrum:
Are those little bits of plastic?

Mulch?

Germans.

 

[Jim Hanlon]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by guilhaume:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Where's the tasting note?

really, i don't know who's vineyard it is.

Old timers would tell you they all looked like that.

Most still do. The photo was taken in Vertus, and was not unusual from what we saw on the Cotes de Blancs.

 

[Jim Hanlon]

originally posted by Oliver McCrum:
Are those little bits of plastic?

Mulch?

Plastic that was part of the Parisian garbage used as fertilizer through the last 90s. The plastic doesn't degrade, so it just sits there. I'm more worried about what was there, but can't be seen anymore. Really amazing that the world's most uniformly-expensive wines come from a region with trash all over its terroir. (I love Champagne, so this is more a heart pang than indictment.)

 

[Alice F.]

Looks like Clos de Mesnil to me!

what the hell happened to you in the jura! missed you.

 

[Unknown]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by guilhaume:

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Where's the tasting note?

really, i don't know who's vineyard it is.

Old timers would tell you they all looked like that.

yes, they all do look like that. Except for egly-ouriet than never used that shit...

 

[Mark Davis]

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www.organicwinejournal.com

 

[slaton]

Gross.

 

[Ned Hoey]

OMFG! Champagne is actually a Superfund site! Doh! And I just bought a ticket for the K&L annual Champagne tasting.

So who didn't do this?

 

[Yixin]

Speaking of which, we drank a few bottles last night of V et S - the Fidele (clean, linear but also with interesting peanut notes on the nose), the Saignee (oh yes, more please) and the Argile (my favourite of the night). Anyone care to tell me more about them?

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

That explains the isotopey flavor you get in some of the premier bottlings.

 

[Oliver McCrum]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Oliver McCrum:
Are those little bits of plastic?

Mulch?

Germans.

Probably still the odd artillery shell too, good point.

 

[The Wine Mule]

"Cuve du Gadoux" has a long and dishonorable history. According to Andrew Jefford, the practice of spreading Parisian rubbish over the vineyards of Champagne was supposed to be stopped in 1998. Perhaps someone did not get the memo?

 

[Jim Hanlon]

originally posted by The Wine Mule:
"Cuve du Gadoux" has a long and dishonorable history. According to Andrew Jefford, the practice of spreading Parisian rubbish over the vineyards of Champagne was supposed to be stopped in 1998. Perhaps someone did not get the memo?

They did stop, but the plastic does not degrade. Nor does the glass or the occassional hypodermic needle.

 

[slaton]