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From: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: A worthwile champagne.
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 20:41:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 20:41:32 1985
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Reply-To: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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	Domaine Chandon is indeed a fine sparkling wine - one I stock at
home. However, if I were to select the American sparkling wine that comes
closest to a French Champagne with the characteristic "yeasty" taste, I would
choose Iron Horse from California. It is apparently aged a considerable length
of time over the lees. It has very fine bubbles that give it a creamy texture
and the taste and aroma are decidedly in the class of a French Bollinger or
Moet-Chandon. 

	I would be incomplete without saying that there are *many* fine
sparkling wines available from American wineries. There are fine ones from
California, Oregon, and Washington. The growing conditions up here in the
Northwest, west of the Cascades, often produce Chardonnays ideally suited
for sparkling wine - i.e. low tannin in the juice and high acidity.

					Jere M. Marrs
					Tektronix, Inc.
					Beaverton, Oregon 
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