NV Charles Mignon Champagne Grand Cru Cuvée Comte de Marne
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Friday, January 1, 2016 - Interesting. Had my other bottle of this on New Year's Eve 2014 and this bottle on New Year's Day 2016, a year later. I still think this is wonderful. I don't get the defects that others hint about. Fine, persistent mousse. Other comments from last year are unchanged. Sorry this was my last bottle. That being said, I just don't buy much higher priced Champagne anymore, preferring Prosecco for the QPR. I did have a bottle of Clicquot NV Brut this past year and at a price north of the Mignon, I preferred the Mignon. I do like Gruet, Kirkland Prosecco and Kirkland NV Champagne for the QPR. If you have the bucks, then there's a certain finesse about Champagne that the others can't deliver. But there's an elusive holy grail that I stopped searching for a number of years ago, preferring less expensive pleasure and the ability to spend the dollars on other things. Perhaps that's sad, but it works for me these days...
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Comment posted by americanstorm:
6/11/2016 10:11:00 AM - Funny, as I have gotten older and closer to the end I find more and more fun in searching for that holly grail you speak of. To be sure, I have had many many expensive disappointments, but every once in awhile you hit the home run and that seems to make the bad memories go away. Besides, the conversations with fellow wine friends seem a lot better, good or bad, when talking about a $30 --$40 --or more bottle than a $5 or $10 wine. Good review, good champagne, and remember, no one ever saw a brink s truck follow a Hurst to the cemetery :)