Are you sure valley? my sister bought some veuve for their wedding and saved a bottle from april to december. It was off... but that might have been just one dodgy one out of the crate.
I went to some champagne tasting thing with work once and the expert said that you should not open champagne for at least a year after you buy it because apparently they get it in the bottles so soon after making it that there's no time for the fizz to settle down - leave it a year and it's much better.
I didn't hear the rest because I'd downed 5 glasses while he was boring the a8se off us...
Is anyone else's house full of bottles of champers that are now probably out of date ?
You get given it for something, never open it there and then, and gets put away for a 'special occasion', which of course never happens, or if it does happen, you don't realise till the next day you've got 182 bottles of 'special occassion' Moet in the cupboard under the stairs ?
If it's a problem I have plenty of storage space round mine. I don't have any bottle of Moet or anything else for that matter for 'special occasions'. As long as you don't count the bottle of methylated spirit in the back garden.
Any unwanted bottles will be gratefully recieved!!
[cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]Is anyone else's house full of bottles of champers that are now probably out of date ?
You get given it for something, never open it there and then, and gets put away for a 'special occasion', which of course never happens, or if it does happen, you don't realise till the next day you've got 182 bottles of 'special occassion' Moet in the cupboard under the stairs ?
No ? never mind.....
er no that doesnt happen in ours!!
You want to start selling at a good rate?
Only certain years get to be vintage Champagne years and it has to fulfill several criteria - it has to be at least 39 months old before it can be declared a vintage year and roughly only one in ten years is considered a vintage year, and a vintage crop must be made solely from one grape (chardonnay) and those grapes must be harvested in the same year. Plus only a small amount of the crop is turned into vintage champagne the rest goes into ordinary champagne production. Who decides what makes a vintage champagne? The vineyards themselves...but it has to measure up against peer group approval and so on.
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I didn't hear the rest because I'd downed 5 glasses while he was boring the a8se off us...
You get given it for something, never open it there and then, and gets put away for a 'special occasion', which of course never happens, or if it does happen, you don't realise till the next day you've got 182 bottles of 'special occassion' Moet in the cupboard under the stairs ?
No ? never mind.....
Any unwanted bottles will be gratefully recieved!!
http://www.champagne-cellar.co.uk/More/apocrypha.html
er no that doesnt happen in ours!!
You want to start selling at a good rate?
yes....
Personally I hate the stuff.