Six Atmospheres | Champagne & Sparkling Wine

Six Atmospheres | Champagne & Sparkling Wine

Why are cheap sparkling wines so bad?

(yes, they are)

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Tom Hewson
Feb 16, 2023
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Welcome, bubbleheads.

A reciprocal thanks to Dan Kirby for linking to Six Atmospheres last week - I enjoyed Dan’s take on some intense MW study tasting recently. It made me think of writing about the most common mistakes I’ve made tasting sparkling wine blind…..

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It also made me want a grid.

Anyway, my twenty year old Peugeot 206 looks like it’s about to die a noble death soon. Talk of a new car makes thoughts turn to money, which is a subject I’m never quite sure how to approach with champagne and sparkling wine. This stuff is not cheap. But it’s not luxury watches, either; it’s not the haves-and-the-have-nots. It’s the haves-quite-frequently and the haves-only-when-you-don’t-need-a-new-cars.

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