Last month I hosted a long, lazy, champagne-fuelled lunch with a group of champagne-sisters and the sublime champagnes of Champagne Lanson and Champagne Pol Roger.
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Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne is always such a treat and probably one of my favourite vintage Blanc de blancs.
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This Champagne Michel Genet Blanc de blancs vintage 2012 is incredible value for money for a vintage champagne. I bought this at Wine Cellar and you can see their range of Champagne Genet cuvees here. The current available vintage of this wine is 2014.
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For no reason whatsoever, I decided to open this very special bottle of Dom Perignon the other day, the 2008 vintage. Dom Perignon only produce vintage wines, and the 2008 was the first ever to be released out of chronological order, being released after the 2009.
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By now you guys know of my love for Blanc de blancs champagne, and this one from Champagne Valentin Leflaive ticked all the boxes for me.
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First I have to start by telling you how stoked I was when earlier this year I was able to get my hands on a few bottles of Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve NV. This champagne is not available on the South African market and I had it a few years ago during one of my trips to Champagne. Since then it has become a firm favourite whenever I visit the region. So when I had the opportunity to buy a few bottles, I snapped them up.
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The perfect way to kick off the weekend is with champagne, lots and lots of champagne … and this is exactly how a few champagne-friends and I started our weekend when I hosted a tasting through a range of some Laurent-Perrier cuvées last Friday.
THE CHAMPAGNE CHICK 