NV champagne info
1So I was gifted two bottles of NV champagne, Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne Premier Cru Brut and a Veuve Clicquot Brut. CT suggests the NF was a single offering and is way beyond its window, but how would I confirm this? Is there a way to identify batch info on the Veuve?
Should I be excited to try these or prepare for the inevitable drain pour?
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NV Champagne are bottled every year by the big houses etc with different base wines and vintages blended together, bottling dates month/year/day and batch are usually on the foil somewhere? and I do like the NF a lot. Can’t help you with the Veuve but probably drinkable.
@ScottW58 @hscottk There are CT purchase dates on the NF from 2003 to present, so unlikely a one-off. I’d think the Verve could easily be decent. I’ve had IH (the Tut), not stored well at all, be quite tasty many years after bottling.
@hscottk @rjquillin @ScottW58 The Tut is 2006 and I agree it’s still drinking well. One of my favorite SPs this past year was a 2002 Robert Hunter Blanc de Noirs, so I wouldn’t worry about the disgorge date too much, especially since these are both decent bottles of champagne from respected/well-known producers.
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Yes not a one off, some houses number their non vintages like Krug is up to 165 but i’m not sure everyone does that.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. Any ideas what these numbers mean on the NF bottle?
@hscottk
An semi educated guess here because every house does it a little different but I think that it is a 2010 base that was released in 2018, some of those other numbers are probably month and day of discouragement. They usually blend with 4 to 10 other vintages.
Finally got around to try these and they were both drain pours. Sad.
@hscottk Yikes, both? That makes me think they were stored improperly before being gifted to you.
What was off about them?
@chipgreen These were both gifted in the “we’re not going to drink these, do you want them?” manner. God only knows how long they sat there. Both were noticeably darker than expected, muted nose and a tangy sourness on the palate.
@hscottk Oh well, at least they were free.