As the weather gets warmer, I find the appeal of fresh and crunchy vegetables with citrus flavours gets just that little bit higher. This dish is really easy, quite cheap to prepare if you shop at an asian grocer and you can adapt as you wish.
Champagne Neret Vely Ode a la Vie Blanc De Noirs
$130.00
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At Wine Paris early in 2025 a Master of Wine candidate suggested we go and try the Neret Vely Blanc de Noirs, and we are incredibly grateful! Ode a la vie, translates as ode to life, and this Champagne has the perfect name!
92% Meunier and 8% Pinot, aged in bottle for 4 years prior to disgorgement, it brings lemons, hazelnut, and white flower aromatics to a palate laden with fruit yet simultaneously alive and light. A gorgeous drink.
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Wine Specs
Variety
Meunier, Pinot Noir
Region
Vintage
NV
Winery
Winemaker
Carole Neret
Body
Medium
Sweetness
Dry
Drinking Window
Now - 2030
Alcohol %
12.5
Closure
Cork
Size
750 mL
Biodynamic
No
Neret Vely don’t have the ‘been making Champagne from a single, old vine Grand Cru vineyard for the last 4,000 years’ thing going on, but they do make incredible Champagne. So good, that a Master of Wine candidate we were chatting with at Wine Paris said we had to go and taste them.
In the 1980s the Neret family was one accountant and one farmer with zero winemaking experience. A great love for Champagne and the inheritance of a small section of a tiny vineyard changed all that very rapidly. Within 10 years they had 13 acres of vines and take a very respectful approach to their management. The vineyard is biodynamic and ploughing is done by horse rather than tractor. They are very talented winemakers but, regardless, employ a series of specialist oenologists to constantly help them revisit and rework blends until they feel they have produced truly exceptional Champagnes.
Shellfish and butter... never a bad thing, right? Right! Pair it up with a Chardy from Pemberton for a truly local experience...
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2 whole marron (or crayfish) If they are still alive, place the marron into the freezer for 5 minutes to put them to sleep. Sliced in half lengthways and clean out the head and veins. 2 ripe peaches (cut into wedges) 6-8 cherry tomatoes (halved) Fish stock: This will make approximately 1 litre of stock and you can freeze what you don't use. 1 litre water 1 white fish (head & frame only, ask your local fish monger) 1 brown onion (diced) 1 tbsp fennel seeds To Finish: 50g chopped butter 2 courgette flowers (halved) 2 tbsp chopped chives 2 tbsp Yarra Valley Salmon CaviarMethod
Prepare the fish stock. Wash fish frame, place into a pot with water, chopped onion and fennel seeds, bring to the boil, skim, simmer for 20 minutes then strain through muslin cloth. Heat a pan & add a good splash of olive oil (very hot pan please) then add the marron with flesh
Does Matt have the best job in the world? His European wine tasting trip would certainly suggest so...
We packed Matt off to Prowein and Champagne again this year to hunt down some quality reds from Europe and perhaps another Champagne producer or 2 to add to the 3 awesome producers we already import... Click here to see the Champagne houses we currently import and you can check out some articles on our previous expeditions via this search query.
Prowein was especially nuts this year, with 6,500 exhibitors from over 60 countries showing their wares (that’s around 4,000 more producers than there are in Australia) and about 60,000 trade visitors tasting and buying.
About to elbow through the scrum – over 6000 wineries on show and 60000 buyers.
What, me Jetlagged? About to catch up with Bernard Remy.
Meeting Schola Sarmenti at Prowein – amazing wines and a lovely Grappa.
The brief to Matt was simple: elbow your way through the scrum and find us the good stuff... reds good enough for Aussies to drink and that are cracking value for money. On previous trips Matt had just been hunting for Champagne
About to elbow through the scrum – over 6000 wineries on show and 60000 buyers. What, me Jetlagged? About to catch up with Bernard Remy. Meeting Schola Sarmenti at Prowein – amazing wines and a lovely Grappa.Related Products
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