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Food & Wine’s Ray Isle says there’s no reason to stop drinking French Champagne after the New Year. In fact, fine Champagne can and should be enjoyed the year round! Among leading wines from estates such as Bollinger and Charles Heidsieck, Isle also recommends our partner Domaine Egly-Ouriet<\/a>‘s peerless ‘Les Vignes de Vrigny,’ a 100% Pinot Meunier Champagne. An excerpt of the blog post is below; here’s the link to the original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”justified” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Why You Should Keep Drinking Champagne After New Year’s<\/strong><\/p>\n By Ray Isle, January 6, 2016<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Champagne sales skyrocket up to seven times the usual during the week preceding New Year\u2019s Eve, but what I want to know is what happens the next week? Actually, I do know: They fall off a cliff. This is wrong. In fact, if there\u2019s one thing New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations should tell us\u2014besides that kissing the wrong person at midnight can lead to all sorts of problems\u2014it\u2019s that Champagne is so delightful that we\u2019d be nuts to stop drinking it just because the party is over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So my suggestion, now that we\u2019re a week into 2016, is to keep drinking Champagne. Drink it with dinner; drink it with lunch; shoot, drink it with breakfast if you feel like it. And to help out with choices, here are five recent winners from the F&W Tasting Room.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n NV Egly Ouriet Le Vignes de Vrigny 1er Cru ($85)<\/strong> A rare Champagne made solely from Pinot Meunier, this seductive, pear-inflected bottling comes from a single plot of 40-plus-year-old vines on the Petite Montagne de Reims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”http:\/\/dev.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/food-and-wine.png” alt=”Food & Wine” title_text=”Food & Wine” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”on” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” use_overlay=”off”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” global_module=”2353″ make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_post_nav global_parent=”2353″ admin_label=”Post Navigation” in_same_term=”off” hide_prev=”off” hide_next=”off” use_border_color=”on” border_color=”#d46d32″ border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”5px|5px|5px|5px”] Food & Wine\u2019s Ray Isle says there\u2019s no reason to stop drinking French Champagne after the New Year. In fact, fine Champagne can and should be enjoyed the year round!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,57,73,53],"tags":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champagne","category-egly","category-france","category-organic","tag-champagne","tag-egly","tag-foodwinemag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northberkeleyimports.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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