#286 Happy New Year with Moet 1961

Firstly, Happy New Year everyone.  At the start of 2010, I didn't have a clue that I would be a married man at the end of it, and so goodness knows what will have happened in 365 days from now.  (nobody mention the word 'baby'!)

What will have happened when I write my January 1st 2012 post is that I will have put another 300 posts onto this blog, as I am planning on having a massive push on my wine tasting and my personal wine education in 2011.

So what a better way to enter the new year than with my wife by my side and a glass of champagne half a century old in my hand. 

1961 Moet & Chandon from magnum
This wine had aromas of gunpowder smoke, leading onto a lovely burnt lemon zest, fresh lemon juice and marmalade aromas, and then some gorgeous nutty and biscuity aromas.  The palate is all about the citrus!  Zest, more juice, some lovely sherbet lemon flavours too, with gorgeous minerality and acidity balancing out this old and stunning wine.

The last time that I had this wine was in the cellars at Moet & Chandon in Epernay, and it was stunning then, and is equally stunning now, but I think that it was better when freshly disgorged.  As a result, it is only 9.5/10, but still, what a stunning way to start the year.