My friend gave me a bottle of this. What should I be careful about when drinking it?
Sorry, I don't know much about wine, I need help.
by Big-Echo-7562
11 Comments
NeverFailBetaMale
Not sure what you mean by be careful? Should be a nice bottle. I guess be careful not to spill it or break it over your head? But wine drinking is a pretty low risk activity as long as you’re not doing it while motorcycling without a helmet
Thesorus
>What should I be careful about when drinking it?
nothing, really.
share with a friend over a nice steak or roasted lamb.
winedood
Be careful not to enjoy it too much because Burgundy is a slippery and expensive slope…
Sad-Lecture6340
No need to let it breathe for hours or decant it. It’s good to go. Temperature wise: start at 16 degrees Celsius. Let it warm up while you drink at room temperature. Use a Bourgogne glass.
Hopefully this helps. And above all: enjoy!
remyworldpeace
Can’t believe nobody has written this in the comments yet, but this is one of the world’s absolute top/most expensive producers, and one of their most famous wines
An awesome present! I recommend opening the bottle and let it breathe for 30/60 mins before pouring. Enjoy it over a few hours, taking your time to really smell and taste all the amazing complexity. It should evolve and develop in the glass
Enjoy and count yourself very lucky
Just-Sign-5394
Be careful that no one steals it haha
statjbd
I had a 12 thins summer it was my woty. 18 should be fantastic. You can drink now or hold for years to come. Separately, you could sell it to me 😎
runningshoes-n-tat2s
Be careful… not to spill it.
sparklingwaterll
Think he means by careful. Don’t open it for a drink fest with pizza. This wine deserves to be decanted for an hour and chilled to 60 degrees f. I would decant than after 45 minutes put it in the fridge for 15 minutes. That should be the fastest way to prepare it. This is a thoughtful wine for special occasions with your partner, family, close friends.
kimnacho
That’s a $1000 bottle of wine right there and some of the best burgundy you can find.
Nothing to be careful about except making sure you are in the mood to really really enjoy it fully and have enough time to drink it and experience it.
EggCzar
That is an *amazing* gift. It’s one of the top wines from one of the world’s great wine estates, Armand Rousseau. Despite being “only” premier cru, the world views this bottling as the equivalent of a top grand cru Burgundy (at auction, this is slightly over $1k).
The estate feels so highly about it that, while the normal progression when visiting producers in Burgundy is to taste lesser wines, then premiers crus (vineyards classified as good, but not best), then grands crus (legally classified as the absolute top vineyards), that’s not what Rousseau does. Instead they go out of order to show several of their grands crus, then this wine, then their top two bottlings (Chambertin and Chambertin Clos de Beze).
If you can’t store it properly, find some good friends, open it, and drink it slowly over a couple of hours to see it change. The 2018 reds were very ripe and because of that, the ones I’ve had have drunk really well young. If you have a wine fridge or a natural cellar that stays cool even in summer you can *easily* store this for 50 years, no exaggeration.
11 Comments
Not sure what you mean by be careful? Should be a nice bottle. I guess be careful not to spill it or break it over your head? But wine drinking is a pretty low risk activity as long as you’re not doing it while motorcycling without a helmet
>What should I be careful about when drinking it?
nothing, really.
share with a friend over a nice steak or roasted lamb.
Be careful not to enjoy it too much because Burgundy is a slippery and expensive slope…
No need to let it breathe for hours or decant it. It’s good to go.
Temperature wise: start at 16 degrees Celsius. Let it warm up while you drink at room temperature. Use a Bourgogne glass.
Hopefully this helps. And above all: enjoy!
Can’t believe nobody has written this in the comments yet, but this is one of the world’s absolute top/most expensive producers, and one of their most famous wines
An awesome present! I recommend opening the bottle and let it breathe for 30/60 mins before pouring. Enjoy it over a few hours, taking your time to really smell and taste all the amazing complexity. It should evolve and develop in the glass
Enjoy and count yourself very lucky
Be careful that no one steals it haha
I had a 12 thins summer it was my woty. 18 should be fantastic. You can drink now or hold for years to come. Separately, you could sell it to me 😎
Be careful… not to spill it.
Think he means by careful. Don’t open it for a drink fest with pizza. This wine deserves to be decanted for an hour and chilled to 60 degrees f. I would decant than after 45 minutes put it in the fridge for 15 minutes. That should be the fastest way to prepare it. This is a thoughtful wine for special occasions with your partner, family, close friends.
That’s a $1000 bottle of wine right there and some of the best burgundy you can find.
Nothing to be careful about except making sure you are in the mood to really really enjoy it fully and have enough time to drink it and experience it.
That is an *amazing* gift. It’s one of the top wines from one of the world’s great wine estates, Armand Rousseau. Despite being “only” premier cru, the world views this bottling as the equivalent of a top grand cru Burgundy (at auction, this is slightly over $1k).
The estate feels so highly about it that, while the normal progression when visiting producers in Burgundy is to taste lesser wines, then premiers crus (vineyards classified as good, but not best), then grands crus (legally classified as the absolute top vineyards), that’s not what Rousseau does. Instead they go out of order to show several of their grands crus, then this wine, then their top two bottlings (Chambertin and Chambertin Clos de Beze).
If you can’t store it properly, find some good friends, open it, and drink it slowly over a couple of hours to see it change. The 2018 reds were very ripe and because of that, the ones I’ve had have drunk really well young. If you have a wine fridge or a natural cellar that stays cool even in summer you can *easily* store this for 50 years, no exaggeration.