Today we are completing the review of dozens of the best champagne.
7. Circle (Krug)
quality and endurance - so it would be possible to formulate a creed champagne house Krug."Their strict and very conservative policy of keeping the wine for many years before the release of its sale seems almost incompatible with the pace of the modern world" - shocked Robert Parker - "but luckily, it provides them with the highest quality, maturity and complexity.»
These people do not pursue quantity.House publishes annually about 100 thousand bottles of it in the 300 (!) Times less than the volume of production mastodon market champagne - Moet & Chandon and.
area of its own vineyards, the company is extremely limited - only 20 hectares, and it is the best buys grapes from 56 hectares still the best vineyards in Champagne.The mixture is fermented in small oak barrels and then aged in bottles for at least 6-8 years.This provides a unique recognizable difficult wine flavor and the ability to further the noble aging in the bottle.
Wines of Champagne houses - one of the most "long-playing", the quality remains the same or even improved over time.It's the fault of so-called "late realization", as they can withstand 30 or 40 years.This is a wonderful facility for long-term investments in the wine.Robert Parker, taste Krug 1947 harvest, said it was the most outstanding champagne.he had ever tasted.
And in April this year at the wine auction in Hong Kong for a bottle of 750 ml is even more old wine - champagne in 1928 from the collection of Krug Collection - paid $ 21,200 - and, thus, it was the most expensive ever sold sparkling wines.According to the expert auction house Sotheby's Serena Sutcliffe (Serena Sutcliffe), this wine - one of the best champagnes in the history of winemaking.
8. Roger Paul (Pol Roger)
Founded in 1849 by Paul Roger Champagne house Pol Roger is still in the possession of the family, opposing the universal process of mergers and acquisitions of small family businesses large holdings such as LVMH.Today, the house is managed by two great-grandsons of the founder, dobivshmisya in honor of his great-grandfather even changing his name - now it is spelled with a hyphen - Pol-Roger.
It - one of the best companies of the Champagne region, and one of the best champagnes in the world.Robert Parker, chief wine critic of the world, assesses its extremely enthusiastic: "If there is any one vintage Champagne Brut, which clearly can claim the role of one of the greatest wines in the world, it is - Pol Roger.»
exceptional quality of this vintagewine - its ability to persist for 30 years or more, that can not afford even many great red wines of Bordeaux.This makes Pol Roger is very attractive for wine collectors and wine reliable and profitable investment.
Pol Roger Champagne is known as a favorite of Sir Winston Churchill.Once he said: "I can not live without champagne.After the victory I deserve it, and after the defeat I need it. "And it was not a general remark about all sparkling wines - Churchill was a staunch fan of this particular brand.Company Pol Roger even supplied him his wine in a unique packaging - specially produced bottles volume of 1 imperial pint (0, 57 L).This champagne was served to Churchill his butler at 11 o'clock in the morning when he woke up.
9. Bollinger (Bollinger)
Bollinger - another wine from Olympus with the best wines of Champagne.Experts - Robert Parker, Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson and many other wine critics with a worldwide reputation - include it in the top five for quality, along with Dom Perignon, Louis Roederer, Pol Roger and Krug.And especially the critics distinguish the brand Bollinger Grande Année (Bollinger Grand crop year), it ranked as the most elite brands, with impeccable quality.
All other fans of champagne, paying tribute to the taste Bollinger, know and remember this wine is also a favorite drink like James Bond, which he views with a very aristocratic sips almost half of the more than twenty James Bond films.On the eve of the premiere of the new film with Daniel Craig Bollinger company decided to support the association - «Bollinger - James Bond" - releasing a limited edition champagne, only 207 bottles.In the case of steel in the form of a bullet engraved "Bollinger 007" placed a bottle of Bollinger Grande in 1999.
modern heirs of the house Bollinger preserve the tradition of quality - the house is known for its famous "Charter of Ethics and Quality," which he unveiled in 1992, and which should be at the expense of output.However, it is paying off - the demand for luxury champagne Bollinger exceeds supply so that it applies to countries in accordance with the established by quotas.
10. Salon (Salon)
Salon - one of the smallest of the great Champagne houses, which began on 1 hectare vineyard, purchased in 1911 by a charismatic personality named Eugene Aimé Salon.Having to go to this teacher, fur traders, and many more who cleaved million capital Salon decided to become a winemaker, producing wine, what was not.
not difficult to reconstruct his motivation - being frequented the restaurants and the best connoisseur of French wines, salon felt that in wine there is a niche for him - he can create something totally unique wine of unsurpassed quality and extraordinary properties.The idea is to create a wine, firstly, based on Chardonnay alone and, secondly, only during the best yields.In the not very brilliant years of making wine, he did not want to.
And so, for nearly a century he founded in 1921 in the house until 2006 released only 37 millezimnyh wines.Which, of course, from the beginning created them fame luxury drink - an extremely rare, prestigious and expensive.Already his first vintages made his name in the 20s it was the Salon "wine places" in the legendary restaurant "Maxim", the venue of the Paris elite.
After the death of his possession Salon twice resell, and today it belongs to the group of Laurent-Perrier.The new owners are trying to maintain brand Salon, the wine is still made only from grapes of the best years in the last 30 years in the wine incarnated only one of the three crops.Robert Parker, characterizing the quality of all wines Salon as "undisputed," especially emphasizes his favorite vintage - the harvest 1990.
Articles Source: blogovine.ru
