Pair Crus

Lots of people are unsure about how to choose one bottle of champagne over another and simply buy a name they know. In fact when you're thinking of buying a bottle of champagne you really need to know three things about it that will give you a good idea of what it will taste like and avoid you wasting your money on a bottle that you don't like, and may not be of the best quality. Here's part 2 about how to tell what a champagne is like before you buy the bottle.

The first thing was all about which different grapes varieties had been used to make the champagne

Well, the second is all about the quality of what's gone into the bottle in the first place. Let me explain.

Making champagne is a bit like cooking: start with the best possible ingredients and you've got a better chance of producing a meal that's memorable. It's not a guarantee mind you, because you can still mess things up, but it's a great place to begin. The same sort of thing is true in Champagne too.. In Champagne there are some 320 different villages where grapes are grown, but they don't all produce the same quality grapes. In fact there are three levels of quality and each village has been placed in one of these three categories meaning that any of the grapes grown in the vineyards surrounding that particular village are also given the same quality rating.

The classifications date back to 1911 and even though, in theory at least, the classifications can be chnaged that almost never happens because the ranking depends mainly on what's called the microclimate.

The microclimate is all about things such as the exposure of the vineyards towards the sun, the type of soil, shelter from the wind etc. and as you can tell, these don't alter from one year to the next, not even from one decade to the next.

Only 17 villages are ranked as Grand Cru - the cream of the crop - 41 are Premier Cru, the second rank and all the rest are Cru.

The better grapes, the higher the demand so in general the grapes from a Grand Cru village will cost more than grapes from a Premier Cru village and those from a Premier Cru village will cost more than those from a simple Cru.

So what does this mean for you?

Well, finding the words Grand Cru or Premier Cru on the label is a very useful pointer and it's one of the very few things about champagne that you can learn just by looking at the label

A champagne made entirely from Grand Crus grapes will have the words Grand Cru on the label. If you see the words Premier Cru on the label this means that the grapes came from no lesser quality vineyards than Premier Cru. If you can't find either Grand Cru or Premier Cru on the label that usually means that the champagne contains some proportion of grapes from the third ranking Cru vineyards.

In that case you can't tell from the label if there's a lot or a little of the Cru rated grapes in the blend because as soon as you include any grapes from a lower category, the entire blend gets classified as being in the lower category.

It's also worth noting that none of the better known brands are either Grand Cru or Premier Cru, but that's a subject for another time.

Stay Bubbly, Jiles

Jiles Halling spent 10 years living and working in Champagne and loves to share his unique knowledge of champagne with anyone who enjoys this wonderful drink. To read his regular blog, and to find out lots more, go to http://www.madaboutbubbly.com. To join the Grand Crew Champagne Club where you can get fabulous little known champagnes at great prices, to go http://www.maboffers.com/grand-crew.html

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Glass of Red Chateau Belgrave, Haut-Medoc, Grand Crus Classee, France $19.99 Per Karlsson Glass of Red Chateau Belgrave, Haut-Medoc, Grand Crus Classee, France - Photographic Print

China, Jiangxi Province, Poyang Lake, Siberian Cranes (Crus Leucogeranus) in Flight $24.99 Keren Su China, Jiangxi Province, Poyang Lake, Siberian Cranes (Crus Leucogeranus) in Flight - Photographic Print

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Bordeaux Chateaux: A History of the Grands Crus Classes 1855-2005 $52.35 A historical tour of the most prestigious chateaux in the world's most popular wine-making region, Bordeaux Style brings the reader into the intimate interiors and tasting rooms of the chateaux. From gleaming black-and-white floor tiles to the graceful shadows cast by stone arches, from luxurious residences to musky wine cellars, these stunning photographs offer a taste of the rich culture behind these grand wines. In collaboration with Bordeaux's elite Conseil des Grands Crus Classes, this book is published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the prestigious Grands Crus Classes wine classification system, created by Napoleon III for the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. The original chateaux, selected for their excellence in wine making, included 61 from the Medoc region. The quality of their wines has stood the test of time remarkably well; and while many vineyards have changed hands-some several times over-the classification is still by and large a guarantee of excellent quality.

Alliance Des Crus Bourgeois Du M Doc $74.88 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Der Verband der Crus Bourgeois, der sich Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du M doc bzw. nur noch Alliance nennt, wurde 2004 gegr ndet und z hlt fast alle der im Juni 2003 offiziell als Cru Bourgeois eingestuften Weing ter zu seinen Mitgliedern. Unter dem Vorsitz von Thierry Gardinier, ist die Aufgabe der Alliance, die Klassifizierung von 2003 zu wahren und zu f rdern. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Publication Date: 2011/03/09 Language: German Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.23 inches

Wine Tasting at the Grands Crus Classs de Graves $75.01 Spend a whole day exploring the splendid terroir of Pessac-Leognan, the historical birthplace of the Bordeaux vineyard. The prestigious Grands Crus Classs have been earning accolades for their fine red and white wines since 1953. This tour offers you a wonderful opportunity to taste these wines with lunch at the chteau followed by tour of Chteau de La Brde owned by the famous philosopher and winegrower Montesquieu.

Les Crus Bourgeois by Sabourin, Alexis [Paperback] $86.03 Que sont les Crus Bourgeois? Cest cette question que tente de r pondre lauteur, travers l il du juriste. Composante ancienne et incontournable des vins bordelais, on trouve la majorit des Crus Bourgeois dans les appellations du M doc, ainsi que sur lautre rive de lestuaire de la Gironde, dans le Blayais. La mention distinctive Cru Bourgeois apparait sur l tiquetage de vins pour lesquels elle est un gage de qualit et repr sente juste titre un enjeu conomique bien r el pour les propri t?s qui en b n ficient. La lecture de cet ouvrage vous permettra dabord de connaitre lhistoire de cette d nomination, depuis son apparition jusqu son renouveau partir des ann es 1960. Son contenu pr sente ensuite la grande bataille judiciaire opposant les Syndicats viticoles des Crus Bourgeois des deux rives qui a secou le vignoble bordelais dans les ann es 90. Enfin, lauteur dresse le bilan dune question suivie de pr?s par les propri taires, et hautement actuelle: celle du statut juridique des Crus Bourgeois. Author: Sabourin, Alexis Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2011/03/15 Language: French Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches

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Beaujolais Crus and Castles: Sightseeing Tour of French Villages and Wine Tasting $94.11 Some of Frances most spectacular wines come from the hallowed vineyards of the Beaujolais Crus region. Only the most elite vineyards earn the title of Crus, which takes into consideration sub-soil, slope, and aspect. Drive through some of the picturesque villages in this promised land of viticulture, stopping at august castles to look out over the fields of Gamay grapes and visiting family wineries to sample the regional nectar. Go to the heights of a sleeping volcano and watch French wine country unfold before you.

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