Help me choose my New Year's champagne!

[WitchyOoman]

Help me choose my New Year's champagne: <span style="font-weight: bold">Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin Vintage Rose 2000</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline">or</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">Pommery Grand Cru 1999</span>?

It's got to go with Arabic supper at Mediterranea Restaurant... so think about Mediterranean flavors...


The Veuve Cliquot Rose might stand up to the strong Mediterranean flavors better... No?

But the Pommery Grand Cru is very citrusy/apricoty/chalky and bone dry...

The Veuve Cliquot Rose is quite complex: caramel, honey, peach, raspberry, rose, strawberry, toffee... dry, but not bone dry.

The Pommery Grand Cru is complex, but less so... simpler. But will it stand up to the strong flavors of the food?

[WitchyOoman]

Re: Help me choose my New Year's champagne!

Maybe..... I also have a bottle of <span style="font-weight: bold">Feuillatte Palmes D'or Brut 1999</span> in my wine cellar. I just thought it seems a waste to drink so complex a wine with a complex and strong cuisine as mediterranean???

Hints of toffee and anise run through the fresh quince paste, coffee, pastry and candied orange peel flavors of this Palmes.
Too good not to drink alone, isn't it?

By this ^ thinking, though, perhaps the Veuve Cliquot Rose is similarly too good not to drink on it's own...

Maybe the Pommery Grand Cru <span style="text-decoration: underline">is</span> the best of the champagnes I've got on hand for tomorrow night's supper, after all. Clean, not overly complex, citrusy (to cut the rich spices of the cuisine). hmmm

[Skelly]

Re: Help me choose my New Year's champagne!

Vueve!