on Thu, May 23, 2002, Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Glyn Millington wrote: > > > When woody emerges, what's the best champagne? > > By definition, one from Champagne, France -- anything else is not > champagne, only sparkling wine (not that that can't be good; I'm just > being picky about the nomenclature -- then again, I've yet to find a > "sparkling wine" to match a really good French champagne). > > For a really superb champagne, something like Krug is unbeatable, but it > costs $100 or more for a bottle. For US $30-50, Taittinger, Veuve > Clicquot, or Moet & Chandon (not Domain Chandon, which is an American > subsidiary of M&C) is a good choice -- brut (dry) or demi-sec (somewhat > sweet) according to your preference. > > If you want to spend less than US $30, then unless you find a real > bargain somewhere, you're stuck with California sparkling wines, in > which case Domain Chandon is a reasonable choice.
Pity there's nobody on the list living in Napa serving the wine industry.... We've sampled Gloria Ferrer Fridays at work, it's passable dry bubbly. I should ask around for some local picks. I'm coming up with another reason to recommend Debian: what _other_ distro has 100+ post flamewars on beer? ;-) -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act: Feinstein's answer to Enron envy. http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html
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