champagne recommendations

pog it

Hey there! I want to get a really super bottle of champagne and would like it be 100 euro max- something really special. I don't mind if it's less money obviously, but just want something out of the ordinary for a special occasion.

Can anyone recommend something?

Baggio

Well for me it has to be a bottle of KRUG,
always E120+ but they make the best and most unique champange of all, that bottle will be non vintage and yet its dearer and better than 95% of other champagne makers best delux bottles!,,,,but if you dont want to go over E100, perhaps a bottle of Veuve Cliquot's "le Grande Dame"..not sure of price but i think around the E100 mark....

hope this helps amigo....Baggio....

Baggio

ps - failing these - why not a great magnum??..i seen a couple of magnums in obriens the other day, Charles Orban Champange - its a Blanc De Noir's which means: white champagne from black grapes only, in other words, theirs no chardonnay in it, just pinot noir and pinot munier, it tends to be a bit richer and great as a food champagne and you dont get many blanc de noir's about, ive had it a few times, usually E27 a bottle but a magnum is around
E80 so thats still a great special bottle for an occasion if you ask me

cheeeeeers

pog it

Thanks Baggio, I'm liking the Krug suggestion! I'll find somewhere near me where I can get it but I have a couple of weeks before I have to worry about it.

Cheers!

Baggio

well good luck with it, it's dear but outstanding and ages for years aswell i might add so there ya go..............

pog it

Can't find it for under 160euro

Bearhunter

Krug is spectacular, but there are alternatives. Dom Perignon is a bit overdone, but still a magnificent champagne, as is Veuve Clicquot's Grande Dame. Louis Roederer Cristal is top-notch bubbly too, but if you want something a bit different Billecarte Salmon is a wonderful champagne, with a pronounced brioche character. Their vintage Cuvee Nicolas Francois Billecart is available at fine wine shops in ireland at about 90 yoyos a bottle. Very different and very, very good.

Baggio

shame its that dear pog, bearhunter,,yup agreed all great alternatives for sure, Alfred Gratien makes excellent champagne too...you can get it in mill wine shop in maynooth...his best stuff is superb i hear

MattKane

Duval Leroy 1996 vintage champagne is hard to beat. 5 stars with Decanter. Says it all really.

Baggio

yeah duval leroy a good spot there matt.

.............i think their one of the few houses still in family ownership in the region?...i remember reading that the key to their quality stuff is to do with them having parcels of land with really top quality premier cru level grapes on it,,,,

anyway yeah at E48 that is a great bargain

MattKane

Baggio wrote: »

i think their one of the few houses still in family ownership in the region?

They certainly are. One of the very few...

cavedave

want something out of the ordinary for a special occasion.

Is the special occasion a wedding? if so have you considered mead? Something super and ideal for a honeymoon gift, and it is out of the ordinary.

pog it

The champagne is for their engagement present! I'll get the Krug sometime in the future for myself hehe but will look up the others now.

Yeah I was trying to get them to serve mead at the wedding and provide lots of free drink (my sister's wedding). Hope they go with the idea.

BeerNut

Just bear in mind that the Bunratty stuff isn't real mead. AFAIK, Rabbit's Foot Californian mead is the only true mead sold commercially in Ireland.