Louis de Sacy—Brut Grand Cru

Light and Fizzy, dry but gentle:  everything that the usual holiday party champagne at the office never is. For this year’s celebration, soak up this almost berry-like champagne. Most of us can’t usually afford quality champagne, but this non-vintage champers is a simple sipper with no weird, metallic aftertaste. At about thirty bucks, it’s affordable as well.

It was a night of celebration when ‘Topher and I opened her up. It was the end of a very long couple of months before a holiday break from his middle school students. Yesterday was a trip for him to the Temple Springs roller rink with 125 middle schoolers. On the return, they were trapped on the subway on the way home, and it was apparently a total hellscape, but now facing three weeks of freedom, even a non-union teacher can live well for a time. And then there were the holidays to celebrate while Vince Guaraldi Trio played on before he and I run off to different parts of California to reconnect with family.

This is the Rose Version

‘Topher came over for a night for celebrating our last weekend before the holidays begin, and so champagne seemed in order. Besides, I’d just been promoted at work, and it just felt right to open a bottle of actual Champagne from France. De Sacy makes it easy and affordable, thankfully. ‘Topher is actually a really good judge of fizzy wine, “It doesn’t leave an aftertaste like most champagnes people bring to parties at Christmas and try to push on you. I don’t feel compelled to pour orange juice in it. It’s a sipping champagne, not a champagne to get drunk on quickly at a gay brunch.”

So beware, Louis de Sacy Champagne can really knock you out.‘Topher was in fine form, and hadn’t had a dinner yet. That fact would probably explain how by the time we finished half the bottle and eaten a Mark Taper Forum-shaped-tian of fresh cream ricotta, extra virgin olive oil from Stonehouse arbequina olives, Maldon sea salt, cracked black pepper, and a pinch of powdered red pepper, we had some challenges motoring to dinner. We found ourselves more or less wiped out pretty early and ended up attributing it to a hard week of work and the champagne.

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