Your Champagne MO

[Jim_Stewart]

@TGibson

the other thing I do is carefully avoid the pop.

Same here, Tony, but It took me a while to make the change

Louis Roederer NV Collection 242 ?

We opened our first bottle of this new Champagne today. I was careful to release the cork with a controlled “pfft”, instead of my usual MO of “let it pop & let it fly”. It was an impulsive opening on a beautiful Indian Summer day and we had our first glasses outside on the back lawn in late afternoon. Let’s call it “pre-dinner”. The wine showed yellow-pale with a fine stream of bubbles forming a boule lac on the surface in our Grassl Liberte glasses. My first impression was of fruit and then a …