Champagne – Exquisite Wines for Valentine’s Day – James Meléndez / Jaime Patricio Meléndez

Valentines day is a day of love, a day to commemorate the loveliness that wine provides. Wine provides us a senses delight and is a way for us to connect and share a most romantic wine for the most romantic holiday of the year and while wine is great Champagne is wondrous. Valentines days is for Champagne—I want a sparkling wine that is dynamic, dry, yet has a full spectrum of delight that can only come from Champagne. There are approximations you get from other sparkling wines but I want the familiar and luxuriant. Champagne is the quest for both, the subtle and bold. Champagne is distinctive and there is no wonder was that a Champagne or a sparkling wine? Champagne, the region, is at the northern reaches of the wine growing world and is a signal of a wine that lives beyond it’s label and is noted with appreciation on the palette.

A Rosé brings an excitement with the sight and scent; beautifully scented and thrilling to the palette and senses. A Brut is an option as well giving a fully biscuited – Brioche component that leaves the palette in wonderment and satisfaction. And finally, a Blanc de Blancs is about nuance and grace giving refined focal points and flavor profiles that let the mind soar to newer heights.

Here are my recommendations for Champagne –- Rosé, Bruts and Blanc de Blancs.

Valentine’s Day Champagnes

Rosé
- Canard- Duchêne Brut Rosé Champagne NV
- Charles Ellner Brut Rosé Champagne NV
- Henriot Brut Rosé Champagne NV
- Jean Milan Brut Rosé Champagne Charles de la Milanière NV
- Vranken Brut Rosé Champagne Demoiselle Grand Cuvee NV

Brut
- Bruno Paillard Brut Première Cuvée NV
- Guy Charlemagne Extra Brut NV
- Gosset Brut Champagne Excellence NV
- Louis de Sacy Brut Champagne NV
- Jean Lallement Brut Champagne NV

Blanc de Blancs

- A.R. LeNoble Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne NV
- Billecart-Salmon Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne NV
- Charles Heidsieck Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne NV
- Jacquart Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne Millésimé 1998
- Comte Audoin de Dampierre Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne NV

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