I absolutely loved this Yves Guegniard Domaine De La Bergerie dry, fresh, lively, complex and richly-layered, multi-dimensional dry sparkling wine from the Loire Valley in France. It's a cremant de Loire and it will be at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits next week and will write more about it when I am back at the store on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010. I am home now on Saturday night May 15th, 2010 at 11:44 PM.
Thanks Charles for bringing it by for me to taste the other day. I really like it and am thrilled to have it soon as we have no sparkling wine from the Loire Valley at this point. Cheers, TONY
In the meantime enjoy these photos that I have included here of when Charles opened and tasted me on this excellent Yves Guegniard Domaine De La Bergerie cremant de Loire sparkling French bubbly. I believe that it will sell for somewhere in the twenties and it's worth every penny of it.
It will be fun to recommend to our customers as something special and fun and " new " for most of them. It's memorable and got such character and vibrant personality, too.
Made by Marie Annick and Yves Guegniard this dry blend of Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay grapes comes from Domaine de la Bergerie @ 49380 Champ-Sur-Layon, Maine et Loire : home of the great Savennieres dry white Chenin Blancs as well as some of the Loire Valley's greatest sweet Chenin Blancs, too ( like the Coteaux Du Layon wines ).
I could not stop thinking about that it was Charles that was pouring the wine for me : a sparkling wine. He made the sparkling wines recently for Patricia Kluge at her Albermarle Virginia vineyard KLUGE and I still have a few of the bottles that he made signed in our store Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008, Tel:202-363-4265 sales@clevelandparkwine.com www.clevelandparkwine.com ). Charles really knows his stuff.
I put this blog into my chatart blog spot because I am an artist and I mostly took these pictures with my artistic eye and so it was less about showing labels as it was about showing the product and the bottle and the Reidel wine glass and all the marvelous bubbles that escape magically into the tall, thin, sleek form of the Reidel champagne/bubbly glass : a celebration always of sorts from the most basic and simple to the most sublime and ridiculous.
I hope that you all get caught up in this mood and moment and seriousness next to frivolity and explosion of hundreds of small circles-pops of bubbles and movement of Chardonnay and Chenin Blanc liquid to let the trapped air rise on up and rejoin where it once came from months and perhaps years before. The circle of life, the continuum, the dance, the release, the pleasure and the follow-through of things happening in a natural order. Like riding a running, excited river or stream in a kayak or canoe and having the sun beat down all round and the splash of bubbles and spray and wetness and joy wash up and hit you as you taste and swallow slowly this Domaine De La Bergerie cremant de Loire sparkling wine ...
Enjoy the ride. It starts here as the bubbly is poured. Gotta love that. I certainly did.
So beautiful to witness now : a moment or two or three or four or more all trapped/paused/captured here for all of us to witness as never before. And all with the help of my closed artist's eye that I positioned so so that my Canon's eye could be open and see this for us all. Cheers, TONY
Charles, Nicolas, can I please have some more? It sure would taste good on this Sunday afternoon here at home with my wife and son in northern Virginia at 12:30 PM on May 16th, 2010. A bientot et merci aussi Marie-Annick et Yves Guegniard. Venez nous voir au magasin Cleveland Park Wines Et Spirits a Washington D.C. notre capital Aux Etats Unis. Soyez toujours bienvenue chez nous ... TONY
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