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• MacLean1959 says:

  11/8/2022 4:33:00 PM - I agree with you regarding the serving of Champagne with cheese. The sommelier who helped me curate the dinner also likes the pairing. I was very keen to include in the dinner the Piper-Heidsieck Champagne ‘Cuvée Rare’ Brut, France 2006. That was in part because I had never tried it. Also, it was because, unlike many great Champagnes, I am told it is made differently every vintage. The Rare on Saturday was the only wine with significant bottle variation. The first bottle was unlike any Champagne I have ever had...beautifully evolved and exhibiting beautiful sweet melon notes and complexity that comes with aged, vintage Champagne. The second bottle was much more like what I might have expected...austere, tight, but also highly complex and standing by for greater maturity. The group attending would have found a 6 course meal being served with only one red wine a bit strange (myself included), but I can assure you, nobody ever so much as mentioned it. By the way, I have no idea if this message will find it's way to PennyBarr, as I have never messaged via Cellar Tracker before. If it does, hello and thank you for your comments.