on Thu, May 23, 2002, Craig Dickson (crdic@pacbell.net) 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?
;-)
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