After six years in our house, we finally had our sitting room painted. The decorators did a great job - the room now looks exactly as I'd envisaged it in my head for so long. So last night, having moved most of the furniture back into the room, we decided to have some champagne along with our chicken/bacon/green bean/parmesan soup.
I had a bottle of Roger Legros Extra Brut chilling in the fridge, one of the bottles from my Champagne Warehouse order, so we opened that. I'd been looking forward to opening this bottle, as it's a low-dosage champagne and I suspected that I would really like it. And I did. Even though it's 100% chardonnay, it's definitely not a blanc de blancs style of champagne, it is much more a 'wine with bubbles'. The tasting notes that came with the bottle said it would have citrus and lychee flavours, which it did. But to me, a better description of this champagne is that it is like a very fresh, very mild goat cheese. It has a soft acidity balanced with a touch of creaminess, a bone-dry mouth feel, and a gently grassy-green finish that lasts.
The only thing that slightly disappointed were the bubbles. They were very fine and plentiful on first pouring, but didn't last long in the glass - you have to drink this one quickly!
My husband thinks that anyone who likes to drink white Burgundy would especially like this champagne, so do give it a try!
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