Dosage spikes down!

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

I've always found it curious that part of what makes Krug's Clos du Mesnil so "special" is that it has a wall around it, keeping the wind out.

Well, that's certainly worth a few hundred bucks a bottle to me!

 

[VLM]

originally posted by SFJoe:
Oh, I worry about the ageability of non-dose cuvees, Jeff. I discuss it with my Champagne-inclined friends. Peter Liem discusses it, Tom Stevenson discusses it, it is a real issue. Sugar does appear to be a preservative.

For most of the non-dose cuvees there isn't enough of a history to know for sure, though I suppose that applies also to newly low-dose big house wines. So it's an open question. Non-dose wines that I cellar I keep an eye on, I'll open them more frequently. No big deal, I don't age that much Champagne, so it's only a few wines for me, but I worry about them more than other things.

Hence my puzzlement at David's total assurance of our insouciance. For me, it's an active, open question.

I think the age-abilty of non-dose and dosage are different things, right?

 

[VS]

Is 'dryer' the new spelling of 'drier' in Champagne - perhaps to stress that it's really a lot more dry than it used to be?

(I've learned a lot here, BTW.)

 

[Sharon Bowman]

I think McCarthy means that, like a clothes dryer, the new style of champagne tends to toss people around like wet rags.

Good catch on that; I hadn't noticed the slippage.

New rhetorical worlds!

 

[David M. Bueker]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by David M. Bueker:
Eh? Tom Stevenson? Blender at a big Champagne house? Did he get a new job I don't know about. What did I miss while crashing into Argentinian mountains?

What are you babbling about? The linked article is written by Ed McCarthy and the paragraph in question claims to be a discussion with "Roederer’s outstanding Chef de Cave, Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon".

Your hearing really is funky.

I read the article. I know who wrote it. I was moving on to a larger concern (to me). That's all. Just a little drift - not too much. As for the open question, perhaps I just missed it, but I had seen it talked about much here.