Midnight Tasting August 11th 2024
No. 1 • Rare Champagne 2008 • Pinot Noir + Chardonnay • Montagne de Reims, Champagne, France •
Inspiration : ‘it’s Champagne’
Color : classic warm straw, golden yellow hue.
Aroma : fresh and inviting but with a rounded and deeper sense.
Taste : toasted croissant, almond slivers and confectioner’s sugar with fresh and baked apple and quince.
Big Takeaways
2nd label for Piper-Heidsieck, Champagne house dating back to the 1700s.
2008 vintage, Pinot Noir & Chardonnay coming from 17 crus, aged 7 years in cellar.
Both fresh yet serious with the warm baked goods, croissant and almonds.
No. 2 • Château de Saü, Rivesaltes Rancio 2000 • Grenache Gris • Rivesaltes, Roussillon, France •
Inspiration : ‘your espresso martini
Color : tawny brown with slight haziness / cloudiness.
Aroma : very aromatic, toasted and candied nuts, charred citrus peel, coffee / toffey roasted sweetness with a hit of alochol.
Taste : shockingly light palate; sweet, roasted, nutty & charred citrus, charred orange rind. Not cloying, less alochol on palate than what is on the nose.
Big Takeaways
Grenache Gris, fortified & stuck in barrels to age oxidatively for nearly 20 years.
Husband and wife team that has since closed shop after husbands death…these are some of their last bottles.
This is your espresso martini in bottle form.
Hints
Sip this alongside your whiskey of choice…Willett is particulary good.
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