The ramblings of a man who drinks champagne – Mostly good/entry level.
This post should serve as more of a journal entry. When drinking champagne one does not think in long well formed compound sentences. Champagne is fine grape juice for the monkey mind on nights like this.
Tonight’s bottle is a Taittinger special reserve. It is fancy enough to have street cred. It is also highly accessible. It will get you the nod of approval from real champagne drinkers. It feels like the NB574 of champagne. Standard issue – good. Yeah. I like that, I bought it earlier today at Waitrose after all. It seems fussy, but not really. Let’s abandon that stream of consciousness and see if we can use any of it.
First and foremost. This is not a champagne review. I’m not qualified to do that. However, I’m more qualified than most who would want to know my opinion on a brand or bottle this storied. It’s good. I’m not a nerd about it. Full stop. It’s very fruity, Chardonnay and its limon smelling, citrusy vibe is forward on the nose. It has a little bit of the black Freixenet, cava breadiness to it. It’s like a warm biscuit (us). Quick note : brioche tastes more sugar-like to me. It’s really something to write home about. think about McDonald’s sugar buns…it’s not something that I would associate with a bottle like this. My wife adores spirits and soda. Loves Prosecco. Tolerates Cava. Avoids champagne like the plague, and she couldn’t stop drinking this one. Bottles at 4 times the cost didn’t impress her.
>Another Note: That’s not to say this is better than those bottles. However, it’s a crowd pleaser. It’s successful for a reason. I want her to like it. I’m not keen on drinking a whole bottle champagne alone. Stay-in date night is not the time to start challenging the palate. It’s also not the time to get philosophical about this stuff – at least not this early.
That’s what this whole lifestyle thing is all about right? Sharing with others so that we’re a little less alone in the world. Don’t let the stoics online fool you (I do like them, but don’t envy them). Life is not about solitude. Not reacting in situations, or whatever happens…being fine. It’s true that you don’t want to be cut down by circumstance. Or fully reactive to this world…out of control….But we need to live and feel and simply, be.
That’s what time to live again is for me. This space. We’re all holed up in luxury prisons. 4th box bedroom home offices, happy to chill on the couch and watch Strictly on BBC. I’m after experience and adventure. We’re now post pandemic and so called “free.” But I certainly feel like I have on golden cuffs.
I fear that I’ll one day ask…what was it all for? I don’t know that I currently spend every day living a life that I can justify to future me. So as I switch over to Lochlea for the night, know that we have only time in this world.
