Have you ever drank Bollinger, Dom Perigon or Taittinger Champagne

james362001

James Bond also likes his Champagne during a special occasion. Have you ever drank any of his favorite Champagnes, Bollinger, Dom Perignon or Taittinger?

Thunderpussy

If anyone in the Uk would like to try some Bolly,
Tesco has an offer on a case of, Bollinger Champagne 75cl for Only £188.04

smudgedude

i've had bollinger once before.

needless to say, it was delicious.

Napoleon Plural

I've tried Tattinger, a bit lighter perhaps.

I seriously recommend an English 'Champagne' except they have to call it sparkling wine: Nyetimber.

http://www.nyetimber.com/

A tad chalky, smoky, not as acidic as many French ones. Very good indeed.

The Domino Effect

I was once upgraded to first class on an airline and as I settled in to a seat larger than my living room, the flight attendant asked if I would care for a glass of champagne. Never one to be rude or ungrateful I accepted and he returned with much rubbing of hands and gnashing of teeth to very apologetically explain that they only had Dom Perignon left as someone had forgotten to load the Cristal. Well, I accepted it with as fine a grace as I could muster...meanwhile wondering just who on earth apologises for only having Dom! It was very nice. I have also had Bollinger but that I paid for!

thesecretagent

I've tried them all. I've not paid for many, which is the best part. Krug is the best in my book .Crystal second. Bollinger isn't up there with Dom Perignion, but that's my inexpert opinion. Moet is actually pretty close to Dom, made by the same company and costs around £30.

That said, a good cava is more drinkable to me and costs around £10. Prosceco is the Italian version and good ones are around £10 as well.

A local company to me, Camel Valley in Cornwall, actually beat the champagne houses with their sparkling wine - costing under £30. It's very good and I stock it in my deli.

james362001

Can you get Champagne Bollinger in those little airplane bottles?

thesecretagent

I've never seen good champagne in anything smaller than half bottles (37cl).

james362001

thesecretagent wrote:

I've never seen good champagne in anything smaller than half bottles (37cl).

I asked a silly question. I guess those little bubbles would make the bottle explode.

Thunderpussy

For those who where disappointed in the expensive wines, Could it be a case of "Grape Expectations" )

down2000

Drank a bottle of Dom when I first proposed marriage to my wife. I guess a Bond moment. Also our first dance at our wedding was Nobody Does It Better

Loeffelholz

Had about half a bottle of Dom Perignon on New Year's Eve, 1998, when I was the assistant general manager of The Barrel Head Irish Pub in Springfield, Illinois. Before or since, the best I'd had was Moet & Chandon...

toutbrun

james362001 wrote:

thesecretagent wrote:

I've never seen good champagne in anything smaller than half bottles (37cl).

I asked a silly question. I guess those little bubbles would make the bottle explode.

False. Pop Champagne (Pommery, a real Champagne brand) was 200 mL bottles.

http://www.libation-unlimited.com/i-87-champagne-pommery-pop.aspx

It's probably just that making bottles that small is kind of useless...

thesecretagent

Loeffelholz wrote:

Had about half a bottle of Dom Perignon on New Year's Eve, 1998, when I was the assistant general manager of The Barrel Head Irish Pub in Springfield, Illinois. Before or since, the best I'd had was Moet & Chandon...

Yep, you can't beat Moet. And made by the same company as Dom.

Haven't seen you here recently. Wearing out facebook from what I see! Hope Oscar is warming up... -{

Loeffelholz

thesecretagent wrote:

Loeffelholz wrote:

Had about half a bottle of Dom Perignon on New Year's Eve, 1998, when I was the assistant general manager of The Barrel Head Irish Pub in Springfield, Illinois. Before or since, the best I'd had was Moet & Chandon...

Yep, you can't beat Moet. And made by the same company as Dom.

Haven't seen you here recently. Wearing out facebook from what I see! Hope Oscar is warming up... -{

On FB a fair amount, tsa...but I'm back now, and will be here more frequently. I know Nap has been missing me

Will be wrapping up the first draft of a script adaptation of somebody else's novel by the end of month, and will be on "Storm Maker" with a vengeance. Jade can be an impatient bastard...but not as impatient as his fans, it seems! -{

Napoleon Plural

Loeffelholz wrote:

thesecretagent wrote:

Loeffelholz wrote:

Had about half a bottle of Dom Perignon on New Year's Eve, 1998, when I was the assistant general manager of The Barrel Head Irish Pub in Springfield, Illinois. Before or since, the best I'd had was Moet & Chandon...

Yep, you can't beat Moet. And made by the same company as Dom.

Haven't seen you here recently. Wearing out facebook from what I see! Hope Oscar is warming up... -{

On FB a fair amount, tsa...but I'm back now, and will be here more frequently. I know Nap has been missing me

I have, although Sir Miles has filled in as an unexpected nemesis, with his increasingly ludicrous defense of QoS and the Is Mathis a Traitor thread...

What has made your absence even more annoying is that unlike me you clearly have had better things to do with your time... though I briefly consoled myself that instead you were incapacitated by a deadly contagian... An illusion you have now unkindly dashed.... X-(

Sir Miles

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Loeffelholz wrote:

...but I'm back now, and will be here more frequently. I know Nap has been missing me

I have, although Sir Miles has filled in as an unexpected nemesis, with his increasingly ludicrous defense of QoS and the Is Mathis a Traitor thread...(

More the "voice of sanity" I thought -{

Loeffelholz

Sir Miles wrote:

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Loeffelholz wrote:

...but I'm back now, and will be here more frequently. I know Nap has been missing me

I have, although Sir Miles has filled in as an unexpected nemesis, with his increasingly ludicrous defense of QoS and the Is Mathis a Traitor thread...(

More the "voice of sanity" I thought -{

Well...I missed you fellows as well. And sorry, NP...I'm hale and hearty...as far as I know...but there are at least a couple of new Loeff voodoo dolls out there, so who's to say...

Better have another bottle of Dom, just in case

Lexi

thesecretagent wrote:

I've tried them all. I've not paid for many, which is the best part. Krug is the best in my book .Crystal second. Bollinger isn't up there with Dom Perignion, but that's my inexpert opinion. Moet is actually pretty close to Dom, made by the same company and costs around £30.

That said, a good cava is more drinkable to me and costs around £10. Prosceco is the Italian version and good ones are around £10 as well.

A local company to me, Camel Valley in Cornwall, actually beat the champagne houses with their sparkling wine - costing under £30. It's very good and I stock it in my deli.

I think we've had this discussion before.... and I can't rate Prosecco highly enough... just come back from a week out there, and I prob drank enough of the stuff to float a battleship... )

Shame I only took cabin baggage... can't beat the proper stuff... although Aldi of all places do a great tasting one, and for only £5

Off there tomorrow.... )

And I'm sure I've seen the mini bottles of Dom and the like.... it was rather trendy to drink them in bars with a straw.... apparently ;% :v )

Lady Rose

Sir Miles wrote:

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Loeffelholz wrote:

...but I'm back now, and will be here more frequently. I know Nap has been missing me

I have, although Sir Miles has filled in as an unexpected nemesis, with his increasingly ludicrous defense of QoS and the Is Mathis a Traitor thread...(

More the "voice of sanity" I thought -{

Not when it comes to QoS ......

Sir Miles

Lady Rose wrote:

Sir Miles wrote:

Napoleon Plural wrote:

I have, although Sir Miles has filled in as an unexpected nemesis, with his increasingly ludicrous defense of QoS and the Is Mathis a Traitor thread...(

More the "voice of sanity" I thought -{

Not when it comes to QoS ......

Indeed not...on QoS I'm the voice of authority

minigeff

moet's crap and overly fizzy (my aunty tried to kill me when i told her this, seriously i nearly died that night), dom is pricey but tattinger is ok.

i'm a spirit person myself, tbh the only people i've seen opening bottles of champagne are repugnant over inflated arseholes desperate to impress by drinking a glass of pop that costs more than a round.

bah humbug.

MG -{

Donald Grant

I've tried them all. However, I usually purchase two or three bottle of champagne for family get togethers not at a bar or pub. I prefer brut champagne to extra dry. Have also consumed various brands of pink champagne with scrambled eggs in true Fleming fashion.

DG

Dmitri Mishkin

Opened a bottle of Dom on my engagement night, i had it chilling in the fridge before we went out to dinner, I proposed, then we went back and drank the bottle while watching From Russia with Love.

0073

Champagne is basically ok, it is easier to get a good champagne in one of the known brands, than it is to get a good any other wine. When a restaurant has a wine list that is completely unfamiliar to me, and I need, for some reason, to get the wine absolutely right, I go for champagne. Provided that the restaurant has, at all, decent wines to begin with.

Veuve Cliquot is my favourite, a robust and "old fashioned" as champagne goes. Get a bottle of the rosé version, and it goes quite well with toast and scrambled eggs, something you usually should try to avoid since wine doesn't mesh too well with egg yolk.

These new wawe "light with small and fast bubbles" champagnes are over rated IMHO, youl'd be better served with quality cava or a french sparkling wine, like Vouvray 'Tête de Cuvée Brut', which has the same strength of character as a good champagne has.

If you have it stocked at the local store, try Billecart-Salmon Brut Réserve, it is one of the better champagnes in the <40£/bottle price range.

Donald Grant

That's interesting. I actually prefer Champagne to wine. I was raised, I suppose, in the European tradition where wine was served with dinner even at an early age. My dad was and is a bit of a wine connoisseur and gourmand. Food and Wine Magazine anyone? I learned the basics of course growing up but always preffered champagne to a red or white wine. Color me different! However, when it's time to go drinking with the boys only beer will do because you can stay at it longer, imbibe more. If it's more intimate, then I'll go for several belts of a good Scotch. But for family get togethers, or intimate celebrations with the wife, only champagne will do!

Champagne runs from very dry to very sweet in this way:

Extra Brut = extra dry

Brut = dry

Extra Dry = sweet

Demi-Sec = very sweet

Brut of course is the most common and goes very well with most food. Then of course you have vintage or non vintage.

A good bottle of vintage Dom Perignon (Moet & Chandon) will set you back a pretty penny, but then, as the Benedictine Monk of the same name opined, you "are drinking stars". My Bond collection features an opened bottle of vintage Dom. Drank it for a very special occasion.

DG

Higgins

Loeffelholz wrote:

Sir Miles wrote:

Napoleon Plural wrote:

I have, although Sir Miles has filled in as an unexpected nemesis, with his increasingly ludicrous defense of QoS and the Is Mathis a Traitor thread...(

More the "voice of sanity" I thought -{

Well...I missed you fellows as well. And sorry, NP...I'm hale and hearty...as far as I know...but there are at least a couple of new Loeff voodoo dolls out there, so who's to say...

Better have another bottle of Dom, just in case

Welcome back, Loeffs.

The glossary needs some updates

And Sir Miles was not only "nemesissing" Nap, he was also after me
For no reason I must say

TTT: I have had Dom Perignon, wasn't very impressed.
I don't like Moet much, take Veuve Clicquot over it any day and I also like Taittinger. -{

Never had Bollinger though

Loeffelholz

Bondtoys wrote:

Welcome back, Loeffs.

The glossary needs some updates

Thank you, my old friend.

I will be giving the glossary some overdue attention B-)

Thunderpussy

This isn't champagne but the difference in a shaken/stirred Martini. B-)

http://youtu.be/mvPaw9DxtTc

Napoleon Plural

Moet is good if you find the bubbles get up your nose with other Champagnes. I like Veuve Clicquot too, top stuff.

Is it pronounced moat or mow-ay?

Lady Rose

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Moet is good if you find the bubbles get up your nose with other Champagnes. I like Veuve Clicquot too, top stuff.

Is it pronounced moat or mow-ay?

It's pronounced as mow - eeee in Liverpool )