A small tasting that revealed the fascinating and unpredictable effects of ageing champagne under the sea.
‘This is going to be a problem for us’, joked Michel Drappier after the tasters at this comparative ‘immersion’ tasting in London showed a clear preference when tasting the first pair of wines for the one aged off the French coast in the Bay of St-Malo. The photo below shows Michel's wife Sylvie flanked by their son Antoine on the left and their agent in St-Malo, Christophe Leroux, on the right.
Three pairs of wines, the Carte d’Or NV, the Brut Nature Zéro Dosage...