Non-Vintage Champagnes
This quote about non-vintage Champagnes really brought home to me what marvelous alchemy a non-vintage Champagne can be, and how radically different it is from other styles of wine:
"Why non-vintage Champagne often ends up as the Rodney Dangerfield of the wine world, never getting the respect it deserves, may be related partly to its lower price and partly to ignorance. What other quality wine is prized for broadening rather than narrowing its geographic base, for combining wines from several years, fermenting them twice, issuing them without a vintage date and, in perhaps the greatest aspect of Champagne's magic, combining both red and white grapes to form a single, balanced entity?"
The quote is from an old article, so feel free to skip the marketing notes about selling and buying Champagne at the turn of the millenium. The quote can be found about 1/4 of the way down the page where it begins to get really interesting. If you don't know much about Champagne, this is an excellent place to start.
http://www.thewinenews.com/decjan9900/cover.html
"Why non-vintage Champagne often ends up as the Rodney Dangerfield of the wine world, never getting the respect it deserves, may be related partly to its lower price and partly to ignorance. What other quality wine is prized for broadening rather than narrowing its geographic base, for combining wines from several years, fermenting them twice, issuing them without a vintage date and, in perhaps the greatest aspect of Champagne's magic, combining both red and white grapes to form a single, balanced entity?"
The quote is from an old article, so feel free to skip the marketing notes about selling and buying Champagne at the turn of the millenium. The quote can be found about 1/4 of the way down the page where it begins to get really interesting. If you don't know much about Champagne, this is an excellent place to start.
http://www.thewinenews.com/decjan9900/cover.html
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