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The Ninth Day of Christmas: A Highly Individual Champagne

The Ninth Day of Christmas: A Highly Individual Champagne

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Fredric Koeppel
Jan 02, 2014
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On New Year's Eve, to accompany Royal Ossetra caviar from Petrossian, served plain on lightly toasted baguette, I opened the Champagne André Beaufort Grand Cru Brut Nature 2005, from a house in the Grand Cru village of Ambonnay that produces a total of about 2,500 cases

annually. Winemaker Jacques Beaufort is, from what I understand, eccentric and reclus…

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