I’m sure a lot of this is old news to people, but this guy is great to watch
Oooh a Quebec classic! I actually haven’t had one in a while. They have a beer called Maudite that I actually like even a little more than Fin Du Monde.
Quebec has a pretty great beer scene. Dieu du Ciel in Montreal is possibly my favorite brewery.
UPS or FedEx only. Just package it up and ship it. If you have to say what’s in it I just say BBQ sauce or olive oil.
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I use to trade and ship a bunch of beers. If you don’t have the styrofoam containers that are designed to ship bottles you’ve gotta do a couple of things to ensure safe shipping:
- Individually wrap each bottle with bubble wrap
- Some people put a little electrical tape on the bottle cap
- Put each individually bubble-wrapped bottle in a one gallon plastic baggie with paper towels inside the baggie wrapped around the bubble wrap
- Tons of newspaper or packing paper in between each bottle so everything fits snug in the cardboard box
- Some people also put loose change in the box to give it a sound
If you’re afraid a bottle is gonna break if you drop the box from a standing position, it’s not packed well enough.
Also, as Titled mentioned, UPS or FedEx only.
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Drank our second bottle of 2 cases of 2008 Dom Perignon last night while hunkered down in the snowstorm. The last bottle was 2 years ago, and imo it still hasn’t evolved too much since then. It still screams lemon, and the acid backbone needs to calm down a little more. I’m sure it will get better, but I’m starting to think Dom isn’t my preferred big house style: Krug and Cristal just do it for me much more. With the average bottle price in the US for the 2008 now around $350, I would consider selling our remaining bottles and moving the money into different parts of our collection. But my wife immediately vetoed that idea! She loves this shit.
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I’m surprised that it’s that much. I’m pretty sure I bought someone a bottle of 2008 as a gift in late 2020 for about $150.
Yup, I paid $127/bottle for our 2 cases in Feb 2020, but $150 was about standard decent pricing then. I also have 2 magnums that are selling between $700 and $800 bottle lol. With a little luck, I could turn each one of those magnums into three standard size 2012 Cristal’s, but my wife is going to make me drink them instead.
Does it have any vintage info on it anywhere?
Nah, it just means it’s Non-Vintage, which will be a blend of various vintages. A standard practice in Champagne. Vintage Champagnes though are usually made to last a lot longer than NV. (There are some amazing NV Champagnes that age well though, such as Krug Grand Cuvee.)
I would open it soon. I think you have at least a 50:50 shot at it still being good. And if it’s bad, it’s not going to hurt you. You’ll just have to glug it down the sink is all.
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No, it’s not very likely at all to have gone to vinegar. It would likely just be very unbalanced with muted flavors and just be kind of oxidized. Or the flavors will be kind of gone and only the acid will remain, but not in a vinegar kind of way, it will just be like kind of hollow and sour. Ha it’s hard to explain.
If you get lucky, it will still have some of the fruity and yeasty/bready flavors but have also developed some tertiary flavors such as nuttiness, earthiness, etc. Some people don’t like the tertiary flavors, while others live for them.
Here is a review of your bottle (but very likely a blend released several years after the bottle you own) that should help guide you to what to expect if it’s still singing:
I like the racy, energetic style that I believe, what many expect from a blanc de blanc to be! Lovely saline-infused green apple and pear fruit mixed with fresh minerals and chalk. Long finish, great linear energy and intensity but with little midpalate pliancy today. This should certianly age very well in the bottle. 91-92. liked this a lot!
Your bottle, if it aged ok and is still good, should now also have more bready, yeasty, nutty, earthiness type flavors to to it. But hopefully some of the fruit and energy remains to keep it all in balance.
Blanc-de-blancs means this cuvee is 100 percent Chardonnay grapes. Brut means it’s a dry Champagne. (i.e. - very low residual sugars remaining.)
Sell the wine, buy a new range IMO
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Yeah I hate it! New range is going to come with the new house at some point. For now I’m stuck with this.
Accidentally knocked this bottle over today when trying to grab a soda out of my basement fridge… and it started hissing and slightly leaking. Not usually looking to get into BA stouts on a weeknight, but I guess this is fate.
This is pretty good… I’m not enamored with bourbon barrel aged stuff for the most part, but I’ve been digging the rum barrel aged ones and this hits the spot.
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I’m the PNW for the next 6 days for work. First stop… Breakside for a post 6 hour flight beer.
What Rough Beast hazy ipa. 4/5.
It was sunny when I walked it and raining when I walked out.
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Anyone here ever heard of or perhaps tried ‘orange’ wine? Went to a restaurant over the weekend that had a bunch. We were intrigued by them so the server brought us a sampler and it was absolutely fantastic. I almost never order wine when I’m out due to the price and I could not order myself a glass fast enough. It might’ve been my favorite wine I’ve ever tasted, seemed to have all the good aspects of both reds and whites without any of the downside (lack of white wine sweetness or bite from red wine).
I guess it’s also called a “skin-contact wine” since orange might not be specific enough.
Yes I have and agree it was fantastic.