Expert Ranks Champagne Brands For 2025 Part 2 (Brutally Honest No BS)

[@jensen1964]

Years ago, I tried decade old Salon against Cristal, Vintage Krug and Bollinger R.D. The Salon was dead last and the most expensive.

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

Curious when you say old, how old do you mean? 🤔

[@jensen1964]

@@EdwardOfChampagne 1979 vintages for all but R.D. 1975 in 1990.

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

Not too bad of a tasting enjoying some 1979s 😍☺️🍾🍾 which was the best for you? 🤔 you drank all of those in 1990? 🤔

[@jensen1964]

@@EdwardOfChampagne Cristal with the Krug & Bollinger tied for second.

[@reesepathak9037]

Egly Ouriet, Bruno Paillard, Bereche, Chartogne-Taillet, Dhont-Grellet, Champagne Tellier, Pierre Moncuit, Robert Moncuit, Leclerc Briant, Michel Fallon, Champagne Doyard, Champagne Vilmart & Cie, Leherte Frères

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

cooool. added to the list of upcoming episodes. some of those have been already suggested but its good :)

[@ThanhTran-xg4lk]

Great video thank you very much. Where do you put Drappier and Bruno Paillard?

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

good ones. I will add them to the list for the future parts.

[@coupdegenie51]

I suggest Champagne Pierre Gimonnet et Fils, especially the oenophile. If you have the opportunity, I suggest you taste the organic cuvée P 181 Champagne canard-Duchêne. I find it quite pleasant to drink, moreover it is found in supermarkets between € 26 € 29 €. Thank you for your video. This is an opportunity to discover champagnes. If some are affordable, I will try to buy one or two.

[@ChrisTCAP]

You are missing a few of my favourite Champagnes! I'd love you to review my list of favourites... PS: I do love de Venoge - I've a bottle of the extra Brut 1979 purchased directly from Gilles when I was at his place in Epernay, maybe we should taste it together and share our notes my friend!

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

shoot me a msg of the ones I need to review. Will add them to part 3 :) Just started to collect the houses for that one. :) oh 1979 is a superb vintage. I won't say no for that invite, i'll arrange myself to London to drink :D

[@ChrisTCAP]

@EdwardOfChampagne Michel Gonet. Roger Brun. Drappier. Alexandre Bonnet. Frerejean Frères. Paul Launois. De Sousa. Boizel.

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

Merci, I'll add those to my list of future ones :)

[@stealsteal628]

Hi Edward! I'm going to open a bottle of DP P2 2004 the day after tomorrow. Can you please tell me if I should let it sit open for an hour after I've drunk a third of the bottle? You mentioned this in your video from a year ago when you were drinking it with friends in Serbia. Has anything changed in the last year?

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

hi, great question. so simply when drinking superb bubbles I like to usually chill the bottle in a fridge so it will be 6-8 Celcius. then during the first hour drink 1/3 of the bottle then for the remaining 2/3 it depends of course how many people and bottles you have but personally would like it to last about an hour too. maybe I'll do a separate video on this enjoying bubbles :)

[@stealsteal628]

@ Ok! Thanks for the answer! We are just 2 people, so I’m going to follow your instructions

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

@@stealsteal628 perfect plan. then it will be cool. have some other bottle also open if you are one of the thirsty ones. :)

[@nirvenes]

Etienne Calsac?

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

thaaanks. I'll add it to the list :)

[@ptimofej]

Brilliant video. For Part 3 would love to hear your opinion on any of these - Bereche et Fils, vouette & sorbee, Olivier horiot, Egly-Ouriet, benoit dehu, Sebastian Mouzon, famille mouse, Adrien Renoir, Christophe Mignon, Jaquesson, and R Pouillon…

[@EdwardOfChampagne]

sooo cool :) thanks for those will add them to the list of the part 3 and 4 :)

[@ptimofej]

@@EdwardOfChampagne amazing! Can’t wait to see the latest videos!