1999 Pierre Peters Les Chetillons Cuvee Speciale

Champagne 

This sparkling wine is from the Champagne region in the Northeast part of France. Most people call sparkling wine from other regions around the world “Champagne”, when the only sparkling wine that can be called this has to come from this region in France. This is known as a “Grower” champagne, very small production and not from one of the conglomerate houses in the region (Moet, Loius Roederer, to name a few).  I had a celebratory bottle of the 1999 Pierre Peters Les Chetillons Cuvee Speciale.

On the nose: Peaches, marzipan, & baked bread that just came out of the oven.  Very nice smelling sparkler, yeasty -  almost dough quality.  Imagine if the Pillsbury doughboy was chopping down a peach tree and all the peaches were hitting him and making a mess.

Palate: Dry mid palate. Really sweet after taste.  Almost cloying characteristics once in the mouth.  With a bottle of bubbly like this you’ll want to find something special to celebrate, not an everyday drinker.  P. Diddy would approve if he saw you poppn’ this in the club.

Rating Scale (out of 5 +):

++++½

Price:

$90