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What to do on Wednesday when you’ve woken up with a torn ligament in your ankle? Go to the walk in centre. Get your foot shunted around so when you leave it hurts way more than when you arrived. Anaesthetic needed…

This is what champagne friends are for!
Alfred Graiten 2012
Open, complex, Smokey/mineral/ripe lemon sherbet and very drinkable for a youngster.
Bollinger LGA 2012
Much more muted to start with but opened up into a very pinot driven nose and no sign of bruised apple ox
An excellent start
Taittinger 2008
Taittinger 2005
Two label styles and two wine styles. The 05 open, perhaps a little loose, when chilled all together but as it warms it falls s little short on the finish. Delicious nonetheless l!
08 is still taught and perhaps needs longer, better balance, more integrated and higher acid. Here’s why 05 should not be dismissed but 08 is top class
Gosset Celebris 2002
Theophile Roederer 2002
Here the table diverges. I think celebris is a super wine and can see why people love it but I don’t. I just like it a lot for the exuberant ripe cherry and boiled sweets/pear drops. However the richer, more nutty and yeasty theophile (Louis?) roederer comes out in front.
Vilmart 1999
Bollinger RD 1999
Howard found vilmart on Monday, I finally got them tonight having enjoyed Monday’s 01 offering. Very complete, open, biscuits behind the fruit. I found this a little classier and more refined than the celebris but perhaps that was the turbot We were treated to. Bolly rd sparked a lively chat about all things disgorgement and reminded us why we were there -Po wanted to know if the magnum effect is real! This was huge, punchy, pinot driven bolly at its best . Superb
Roederer rose 2008
Gobillard rose 2008
These two looked, smelled and tasted quite similar. But the roederer had more depth and length. Very good showing from gobillard though with some lovely tight red fruit on the palate. Roederer that bit richer and more complex.
The dessert though? Stupendous! I’m not one for puddings but always look forward to a trompers triumph and this…

Was off the charts.
There was also a lively discussion around a creaky donation of ruinart rose from stevie p in absenting but that’s a thread in itself.

This is what champagne friends are for!
Alfred Graiten 2012
Open, complex, Smokey/mineral/ripe lemon sherbet and very drinkable for a youngster.
Bollinger LGA 2012
Much more muted to start with but opened up into a very pinot driven nose and no sign of bruised apple ox
An excellent start
Taittinger 2008
Taittinger 2005
Two label styles and two wine styles. The 05 open, perhaps a little loose, when chilled all together but as it warms it falls s little short on the finish. Delicious nonetheless l!
08 is still taught and perhaps needs longer, better balance, more integrated and higher acid. Here’s why 05 should not be dismissed but 08 is top class
Gosset Celebris 2002
Theophile Roederer 2002
Here the table diverges. I think celebris is a super wine and can see why people love it but I don’t. I just like it a lot for the exuberant ripe cherry and boiled sweets/pear drops. However the richer, more nutty and yeasty theophile (Louis?) roederer comes out in front.
Vilmart 1999
Bollinger RD 1999
Howard found vilmart on Monday, I finally got them tonight having enjoyed Monday’s 01 offering. Very complete, open, biscuits behind the fruit. I found this a little classier and more refined than the celebris but perhaps that was the turbot We were treated to. Bolly rd sparked a lively chat about all things disgorgement and reminded us why we were there -Po wanted to know if the magnum effect is real! This was huge, punchy, pinot driven bolly at its best . Superb
Roederer rose 2008
Gobillard rose 2008
These two looked, smelled and tasted quite similar. But the roederer had more depth and length. Very good showing from gobillard though with some lovely tight red fruit on the palate. Roederer that bit richer and more complex.
The dessert though? Stupendous! I’m not one for puddings but always look forward to a trompers triumph and this…

Was off the charts.
There was also a lively discussion around a creaky donation of ruinart rose from stevie p in absenting but that’s a thread in itself.