Community Tasting Note
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csimm wrote: 85 points
May 24, 2018 - My previous note from March 23, 2018 applies. Unfortunately, I find very little interest to be had here with this Champagne. It doesn’t do much to offend necessarily, but it sure ain’t trying to win anyone over with any kind of would-be charming personality.
A flat attack flavor-wise, with near-absences of complexity and depth. It has bubbles (which try as they might to conjure up some semblance of energy and verve); it has some white stone fruit and maybe a tinge or two of diluted lemon flavors, but everything else is nothing else. There are much more interesting and flavorful examples of Champagne in the $40-50+ price range.
I don’t hate this wine, but it has to be one of the most boring dates I’ve ever been on. ...Like hanging out with a librarian and discussing the Dewey Decimal system over a glass of room temperature water... (FYI for the Millennial folk: a library is a place with “books;” books are like long text messages and are literary works bound in a fibrous paper material; paper is derived from wood; wood comes from trees; trees are found in a mysterious place called the outside...)8 people found this helpful 14,933 views
6 Comments
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JLuch1 commented:
5/25/18, 9:02 AM - Thanks for the nostalgia. I haven't reminisced on the smell of musty paper mixed with dust that only a library can provide, in some time. Perhaps this next comment is hypocritical since I am technically a millennial (or maybe I qualify as the very end of gen X), but I believe millennial's know a library today as Starbucks.
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csimm commented:
5/25/18, 9:25 AM - Starbucks! Hahaha. Well played! That’s hilarious...and accurate! I guess I should thank Veuve Clicquot for bringing me back to the days of blue-haired Mrs. Whateverherbottom shuffling around the library in her ankle-high hoes, rummaging through her expired library cards and overdues, and authoritatively imprinting the due-date stamp on the book card of my soon-to-be checked out, weathered copy of 1984.
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rustyRudy commented:
5/26/18, 6:57 AM - Brilliant and funny discourse, loved it!
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csimm commented:
5/26/18, 12:06 PM - ...I’m just waiting for the hate comment from some offended retired librarian - because I think they are all extinct now, right?! As was previously mentioned, any librarian is a barista now anyway... ��
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JLuch1 commented:
5/26/18, 12:20 PM - It seems the baristas are too busy profiling minorities to have the kind of time required to read and post comments on the cellar tracker. If they do however, I am sure we will see a CNN "breaking news" article...."Starbucks to close stores nationwide for 3 hour ethics training on blogging."
....but it's finals week, where am I supposed to study?!?!.....
And now we have come full circle. -
csimm commented:
5/26/18, 12:30 PM - Way to bring it back home again. Nicely done!!