Fallet-Prévostat

[Sharon Bowman]

For Christmas, I purchased two Zalto champagne flutes for myself. My previous batch had been bestowed on a friend on leaving Paris several years ago, and I figured I would have a less baroque time acquiring them here than I had had in the distant past. (Though a kind fellow of some note had brought me six in Paris later on, but that is by the bye.)

Flatiron Wines had somehow gotten their hands on the extra brut cuvée of Fallet-Prévostat, this old-school, Avize-based grower. I'd long liked that wine, picking it up at the Caves du Panthéon back in the day, and was happy to see it available in the US for the first time.

So I opened same to test run a flute, yesterday. A bright, crisp, hollow day.

The wine was really cool. I mean, it was the correct temperature, but it also expressed its place, and in a low-key way. No-nonsense Avize, which is as we like.

 

[scottreiner]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
champagne flutes

Is this hipster, or is it drinking bubbles in white wine glasses that is hipster? I can never remember....

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Yes.

 

[kirk wallace]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

Yes.

which is to say that if you don't have zalto champagne stems, then hipsters demand champagne in white wine (or if it is blanc de noir burgundy) bowls. or just use the Universals....

 

[robert ames]

in champagne restaurants several years back i was often served champagne in what looks like the INAO wine tasting glass. hipsterism seemed to have nothing to do with it.

 

[kirk wallace]

Cost, Ease of dishwashing and resistance to breaking might also be factors.

 

[Kay Bixler]

Great note, Sharon.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Thank you, Kay.

No quilts were involved it its elaboration, unfortunately, but all that could change in 2015.

 

[Ben Hunting]

I bought a pair of the Riedel Sommeliers Vintage Champagne glasses after they were praised by Brooklynguy and Peter Liem and like them. I haven't heard much about Zalto's Champagne glass. I do like drinking champagne from a Zalto White Wine glass, which to me is such an extraordinarily beautiful wine glass to look at (unlike the bulkier Universal). Zalto's being lead-free is also a big plus.