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I use this wine key: Laguiole en Aubrac Wine Key Ebony
I have used this glass in this Video: RIEDEL Veritas Champagne
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:
Coates & Seely Sparkling Rosé:
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Pol Roger Réserve Brut:
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Taittinger Prestige Rosé:
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Nyetimber Classic Cuvée Brut:
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The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 - 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 - 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 - 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 - 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 - 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
Champagne is the king of bottle-fermented sparkling wine - there, I said it - but there are new contenders for the throne, and one has been making the rounds a lot in recent years. Compared to the centuries of tradition in Champagne English sparkling wine is a relatively new invention. The new wave - if you can call it that - of vineyard plantings in England started in the middle of the 20th century and today there are around 200 wineries covering 3,700 hectares of vineyards in England.
The region of Champagne alone covers 34,200 hectares 10 times all of the vineyards in England. More than half of the vineyard surface area in England was planted since 2010 and the hybrid and/or German workhorse varietals such as Bacchus, Seyval Blanc, and Solaris have been widely replaced by Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier.
The latter three varietals are of cause also the main varietals in champagne and the climate as well as some of the soils, such as Kimmeridgian limestone, are similar to Champagne.
The cool and often wet conditions in the area are pretty good for the production of sparkling wine but they are also tough growing conditions if you are trying to make wine commercially.
Nevertheless more and more English producers have started making bottle-fermented sparkling wine in a similar style to Champagne and today we are going to find out, whether they can rival or even defeat the King of Sparkling wine in a blind tasting.