Mike Saviage
Kicking the festivities off with some 1990 Champagne. This is medium gold with active bubble stream. Brioche toast nose. Also notes of citrus, apple juice and stones. Pleasant in the mouth but not overpowering. Decent showing but I expected (and wanted) more energy and mousse. (Bday 1 of 13)
Kicking the festivities off with some 1990 Champagne. This is medium gold with active bubble stream. Brioche toast nose. Also notes of citrus, apple juice and stones. Pleasant in the mouth but not overpowering. Decent showing but I expected (and wanted) more energy and mousse. (Bday 1 of 13)
9.3jesus g
Hospitality Schramsberg Vineyards
Birthday dinner
Birthday dinner
10Mike Saviage
Medium gold color. Nice steady slow stream of tiny bubbles. Great nose that evolves with air during the night. Notes of lemon, orange, apricot, shells, and gravel stone. At first dry but later rich and powerful in the mouth. After a couple of hours this was all fruit forward. Very impressive wine. This bottle was in great shape and had many years of fun in front of it.
Medium gold color. Nice steady slow stream of tiny bubbles. Great nose that evolves with air during the night. Notes of lemon, orange, apricot, shells, and gravel stone. At first dry but later rich and powerful in the mouth. After a couple of hours this was all fruit forward. Very impressive wine. This bottle was in great shape and had many years of fun in front of it.
9.6Greg Koslosky
A great bottle of 90 still very fresh with the power and ripeness of the vintage wow !
A great bottle of 90 still very fresh with the power and ripeness of the vintage wow !
9.6Andres Villegas
1 day old-crushed yellow apples, maple brioche, moms cinnamon bread w/ fresh butter, bruised pears. Piercing acidity like biting into a fresh green apple but layered with cream somehow. Full of tension yet so precise. One of the best DP's I've tried.... makes me want to wait 15+ years for the 2002! Happy Canadian thanksgiving!
1 day old-crushed yellow apples, maple brioche, moms cinnamon bread w/ fresh butter, bruised pears. Piercing acidity like biting into a fresh green apple but layered with cream somehow. Full of tension yet so precise. One of the best DP's I've tried.... makes me want to wait 15+ years for the 2002! Happy Canadian thanksgiving!
9.6Tim O'Rourke
Yes. Spot on. Drink 'em if you got 'em.
Yes. Spot on. Drink 'em if you got 'em.
9.3Christopher Blakelock
Still good! Dark golden complexion, honeyed apples, lingering bubbles with nuttiness.
Still good! Dark golden complexion, honeyed apples, lingering bubbles with nuttiness.
9.7"Odedi"
Here is an interesting experience... A friend brought over this 29 year old Champagne, that was obviously not stored properly, as it is not showing at its best. Showing over ripen citrus fruits, lemons, apples, yeast and minerals. Kind of weird aftertaste. Still, it is drinkable. The cork was somewhat easy to come out with no pop sound. Oops
Here is an interesting experience... A friend brought over this 29 year old Champagne, that was obviously not stored properly, as it is not showing at its best. Showing over ripen citrus fruits, lemons, apples, yeast and minerals. Kind of weird aftertaste. Still, it is drinkable. The cork was somewhat easy to come out with no pop sound. Oops
8.6Yianni Stone
Birth year.
Birth year.
9.6James Parker Huston, CWE
Sommelier Charlie Palmer
Lost the bubbles, but still very special.
Lost the bubbles, but still very special.
9.3WARNING: DRINKING DISTILLED SPIRITS, BEER, COOLERS, WINE AND OTHER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES MAY INCREASE CANCER RISK, AND, DURING PREGNANCY, CAN CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS.