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nice story ! 1998 is of the best year ever for the Grande Dame !
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You can have 34°C and a couple of hours later, after some good rains, 15°C. Wonderful food, lovely old towns, and over 1000 beers!!! Here are some of them, just to get an idea: Belgian Beers - Belgium Travel Guide - Eupedia Lijst van Belgische bieren - Wikipedia These are pics of villages and cities nearby:
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Steve,
Will you come to Paris ?
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just bustin' your stones a wee bit Doug........I wouldn't know a good from a bad champagne if I tried.
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It's all good I would feel neglected if People didn't here
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Jérôme...I wouldn't mind but The Lady doesn't think we will have time to fit it in on this trip. Last time, unfortunately I got food poisoning from a hamburger restaurant on Bld Montmartre & was bed ridden for 48 hours+ so our time was cut short. Although I've visited Paris a few times, I've never been during the mid summer holidays.
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For reasonably priced sparkling wine/champagne we find Chandon(s) to be a very good choice. For our fish meals on a twice-a-week basis we like Freixenet (will be visiting them this spring). For my birthday next week, we (make that me) bought a couple of bottles of Veuve Clicquot (one for the week and one for dinner that day), which we both think is most excellent.
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"Our" Champagne house says the nectars go to the US.
It has 5 times more sugar added in the end of the process than the brut. We prefer the extra brut. At Guy Faucheret (see my post earlier in this thread), it is called Dosage Zéro: no liquor in the end, they make it with a pure Millésime. It's very sharply priced at less than 20€. They deliver it to the Rothschild family (we saw the labels on a couple of separate pallets). If it's good for them, it's good for us!
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One of the problems at smaller champagne houses, like Guy Faucheret, is their limited volume. When we spent a week in Epernay a couple of years ago several we visited were sold out to the Chinese and the Germans and had not a single bottle to sell. Good for them (I guess), but sad for the rest of us. Another problem, as Jerome has mentioned, is these smaller houses often do not export outside the EU. Have checked with a couple of the bigger wine sellers in the U.S. and don't have or know who might. Visiting the "Champagne Region" is the best we can do.
Au contraire, Dave. Even you could tell the difference. Seriously.
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