Introduction

The theme was Grower Champagnes. This turned out to be a tremendous tasting as well as a fun night. Everyone brought great food that was uber rich making it hard to eat the amounts I really wanted to. The wines were across the spectrum in styles and types which made for a very interesting evening on the wine geek side of it. Too hard to pick a favorite for me as I marked about half the lineup as very good. Those would be the Egly-Ouriet, Selosse, 00 Vilmart, 98 Coutier, 02 Lassalle, 02 Billiot, Vilmart Rubis and Camille-Save rose. Thanks to everyone for bringing such great wine and food. It's clear that you don't have to grab familiar expensive bottles to get excellent Champagne. Many of the wines on the night trumped big house popular bottles quite easily.

The fun didn't end with the Champagne as the Rock Band was fired up as was Frenchies wine closet and liquor cabinet. Most of the time there was little resembling music coming from the game area but when our hosts stepped up we were reminded that some music skills did exist at the party. Thanks to Todd and Heidi for hosting.

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