Another Long Week

Where do these long weeks come from? You wake up on Monday feeling fresh from the weekend, then by Wednesday you're wondering how you're going to make it to Friday. But Friday came at last...and to mark the start of the weekend, we opened a bottle of Billecart-Salmon vintage 2004 last night. Being a bit tired, I hadn't even planned anything special to eat with it, just some chilli that I had pulled out of the freezer. But the champagne is so stunning with its yeasty-goodness that you can really serve it with anything. It stood up well to the spicy tomato of the chilli. And it was nice to drink on its own. I always think that the brut reserve is my favourite of the Billecart's that we've got in the house - but I'm really going to have to re-think that now that I've had the 2004 again!