{"id":6555,"date":"2009-11-15T12:14:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2021-10-31T23:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:26:54","slug":"louis-roederer-cristal-bling-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=6555","title":{"rendered":"Louis Roederer Cristal &#8211; bling bling!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend who is emigrating to Australia and is loath to pay the 50% tax on importing some of her fine wine collection, had an informal wine tasting. We started with a glass of <a title=\"Louis Roederer Cristal 2002\" href=\"http:\/\/www.champagne-roederer.com\/modules\/fiches_techniques\/pdf\/en\/cristal_2002.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champagne Louis Roederer Cristal 2002<\/a>. The price of this puts it outside most peoples range (mine included), it is a champagne you tend to associate with footballers wife&#8217;s and rappers &#8211; money no object, all about the bling!. So it was a great experience to try a glass. Wow &#8211; it was absolutely stunning, a dry beautifully balanced wine, with a lovely biscuit bouquet. I do not know why but I rather expected this to be over hyped, instead it was undoubtedly the best champagne I have ever had or probably likely to have.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6555 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/P151109_00.38.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/P151109_00.38-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/P141109_20.54.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/P141109_20.54-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/P141109_19.59.JPG'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/P141109_19.59-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>This was followed by a glass of Bollinger Grand Ann\u00e9e vintage 1992, another lovely\u00a0champagne with a distinct nutty flavour. We also had a selection of\u00a0<a title=\"Penfolds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.penfolds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penfolds<\/a> Grange\u00a0wines. These\u00a0and the\u00a0other wines at the tasting are listed above, and I would struggle to find superlatives to describe them.\u00a0 Suffice to say I now feel utterly spoiled. Thank you Rita.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend who is emigrating to Australia and is loath to pay the 50% tax on importing some of her fine wine collection, had an informal wine tasting. We started with a glass of Champagne Louis Roederer Cristal 2002. The price of this puts it outside most peoples range (mine included), it is a champagne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=6555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Louis Roederer Cristal &#8211; bling bling!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[278,276,277],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-festivals","tag-bollinger","tag-louis-roederer-cristal","tag-penfolds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29902,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/29902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}