Hope you both enjoy it, Scott. I think it’s delicious stuff.
even better w a few years of cellar time.
Taittinger’s Folies is pretty toasty and bready and a good step above their entry-level range. Bollinger’s style is inherently muscular and toasty, always. The more you pay, the more toast, bread dough and roasted nuts you get.
And I never would take a young Dom Perignon. It is quite toasty, but most of all it is pretty darn reductive: for the first handful of years the wine is really smoky with very overwhelming gunpowder smoke note that dissipates with air, but usually slower than the bubbles. I find DP interesting only when the overtly reductive character disappears, and it can take up to a decade of cellaring in some vintages. Those few times I’ve drunk DP very soon after its release, it has been a disappointment for its price.
This nails it on both accounts. DP is purely for label drinkers the first 5-10 years. It needs a lot of time. But when it does shine it is right at the top of the hierarchy.
Did Liz like the bubbles, Scott? When you were searching, did you check Bouharoun’s? They have a gold selection and great prices.