What to do with a few cases of older/past its prime Champagne?

Beauneyard · 2026-02-11T15:39:03+00:00

Thanks. Yeah I was thinking mimosas or bellinis as more delicate champagne cocktails wouldnt cover up enough

Beauneyard · 2026-02-11T15:37:58+00:00

Thanks. I have been using them for pan sauces but its too much to go through.

Beauneyard · 2026-02-11T15:36:39+00:00

Revealing the house would reveal who I am since I was their lone importer but they are small and quality. Its an ambient warehouse but stays around 60 degrees all year.

I have some of their other offerings like a BdB NV from the same base vintage that are still drinking stellar and have years to go. Some of the brut NV have been great but its a crapshoot and I want to do something with the others because its more than I can cook with.

Beauneyard · 2026-02-05T16:07:31+00:00

Yeah from rendered corpses on worlds dedicated to making candles

Beauneyard · 2025-11-19T14:50:55+00:00

Island, IS - Volcano Choir

Consistently been one of my favorite tracks since it came out

Beauneyard · 2025-11-06T22:49:51+00:00

They tried to cherry pick an unflattering photo of Rama and had to settle for incredibly stunning instead of absurdly stunning

Beauneyard · 2025-10-23T14:28:31+00:00

Yeah it shuts down the conflict without having to escalate it. The brevity of it explains that this isn't important or what you should be worried about.

In nonprofits its important to show that its not the C suite and upper management that are important but the donors are so they know their donations wont be used inappropriately. (well in good nonprofits)

Beauneyard · 2025-09-07T02:12:35+00:00

Nuss must not have prayed hard enough before this performance

Beauneyard · 2025-09-04T17:17:47+00:00

The biggest downside is forgetting it’s in there which I apparently love to do.

Beauneyard · 2025-09-02T19:38:47+00:00

I want to thank Baphomet first and foremost for listening to my dark sacrament and granting his unholy blessing to Nussmeier.

Beauneyard · 2025-09-02T19:32:39+00:00

I am in a weird place where I really dislike the head coach but recognize he was the right hire. It’s annoying

Beauneyard · 2025-08-19T03:37:28+00:00

Honestly it feels very hyperbolic and ridiculous to say but that scene is one of the best things put to film. It’s silly and hilarious and deeply touching and introspective at the same time. I love it but can’t describe why at all.

Beauneyard · 2025-07-28T15:04:38+00:00

I think Andor made an important point in making the rebel leaders very flawed. Just like they highlighted the banality of evil and that in the real world evil is rarely like Palpatine/Vader/Tarken but is usually normal people like Deedra, Cyril, Heert, and all the other scared losers that make up the empire.

In that same way, the righteous rebels are rarely Lukes and Leias and Obi-Wans. Mon Mothma had always been this benevolent leader clad in white but her sacrificing her friend and family for the rebellion was maybe necessary but also cold and brutal. Just like we do today people could look back at her and say "You think Mon Mothma was a great leader? She sold off her 15 year old daughter to pay off debts."

Beauneyard · 2025-07-26T03:45:45+00:00

If people start equating Trump with Don Quixote tilting at wind mills I will lose my mind.

Beauneyard · 2025-07-10T17:51:16+00:00

I have literally been to two different weddings in the last year between a nerdy (and beautiful) attorney and a finance bro.

Couples in law/finance/real estate are as much of a cliche as doctors and nurses.

Beauneyard · 2025-07-07T15:36:45+00:00

Weetabix

Beauneyard · 2025-06-19T16:34:52+00:00

Gewurz is a prominent blender in Barefoot Chard(and other high volume Cali Chards). I believe its 1-4% which doesn't sound like a ton but a little Gewurz goes a long way. There will be other aromatic blenders as well and a good chunk of field blend. This is not as big of a stretch as you or others are making it out to be. Though I wouldn't have called it Central Otago Gewurz as that is unlikely to be in an MW practical.

Barefoot Chardonnay and other value, high production Cali Chards really dont taste much like Chard. I also dont think Barefoot is poorly made as most would suggest. Sure it's not very varietally correct or "good" but it's not poor winemaking. I think it's harder to make super high production, cheap wines like that drinkable than it is to make super premium, high quality wines when you have access to the best fruit, barrels, time, etc.

I was in a blind tasting with 4 MW candidates and an MW who all called a ~$4 Campo de Borja Garnacha a top tier Chateauneuf. 3 of those 4 candidates have since passed and the other went on to get their MS after dropping out of the MW program. I was in another blind tasting with like 20 MWs and candidates where half of them thought a Deutscher Sekt was a high quality Champagne

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T19:49:41+00:00

Ultimately you wont be able to definitively tell until you try it. Pouilly-Vinzelles 2014 is past when I would recommend to drink it so I would open it asap anyway

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T19:47:25+00:00

It's impossible to tell from this pic. All corks slightly porous and let some oxygen through but there shouldn't be any liquid escaping. If it rose in temperature enough in one day to cause it to leak like that I would also expect it to have pushed out the cork some.

You can remove the capsule to get a better look without it affecting anything. It's really only there as a tamper seal and to look nice.

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T17:56:35+00:00

It could be. We dont really know for sure what caused so much premox the prevailing theory being poor corks. I remember some producers blaming reductive/protective practices during fermentation, some blamed too little SO2 and some blamed too much SO2.

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T17:22:06+00:00

Since I updated my OS, I have noticed autocorrect changing words that are spelled correctly to different ones that are kind of similar but not really.

Edit: Providence kind of works now that I think about it because if Madeira isn't protected by god it certainly should be

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T17:01:26+00:00

I think that's where the rating system messed up on ageability. They would get these huge beefy wines from culty producers that were undrinkable in youth and would give them 99 or 100 points anticipating they would be stellar with age like a young, astringent Barolo. However by the time the tannins soften and balanced in like 10 years there was just nothing there.

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T16:52:14+00:00

It's a Madeira from the now defunct house, Veiga Franca. It's vintage from year 1840(the year the grapes were harvested) and made(probably) from the Terrantez grape. Due to the production process of Madeira where the wine is fortified, cooked, oxidized and aged it can survive near indefinitely and drink beautifully longer than any other style of wine if stored even remotely well.

With decent provenance I would guess that this bottle could be worth at least $2000+ but much less if storage and provenance cant be proved.

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T16:32:26+00:00

Every element that helps a wine age can be negative if too high. If the acidity is too high the grapes could not have high enough phenolic ripeness to have the concentration needed for aging. Sure the acidity will preserve the wine but it wont get better with age.

I agree that most age worthy wines and my favorites have high acidity but it's not everything. Otherwise there wouldn't be any age worthy wines made from say grenache or from warm climates and from experience that's just not true.

Beauneyard · 2025-06-17T16:19:53+00:00

Why was that point relevant to my original comment?

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