{"id":1476,"date":"2020-01-31T02:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T02:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2020-01-31T02:23:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T02:23:40","slug":"champagne-tribaut-schlosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"Champagne Tribaut-Schlosser"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story begins in the province of Qu\u00e9bec and ends in France.\u00a0 About a year ago, a friend in Qu\u00e9bec City told us about a great value for an inexpensive champagne she had tasted and liked very much.\u00a0 It was called Tribaut and it only cost 40 Canadian dollars or roughly 30 American.\u00a0 We tried it and liked it very much and have been buying it since then. So when we took a recent wine tasting trip to the Champagne region of France, we made a special point of visiting their winery.<\/p>\n

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The Champagne wine trade is concentrated in two cities, Reims and Epernay.\u00a0 But the Champagne region is quite large and there are thousands of wineries there.\u00a0 Many of them are small producers located in countryside villages.\u00a0 So we did the usual 21st<\/sup> century thing and looked up Tribaut on the web, got their address and used Google Maps to lead us there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that led us to a winery called G. Tribaut in the village of Hautvilliers.\u00a0 When we realized we were not at the place that we were looking for, they were kind enough to point us to Tribaut-Schlosser, not far away in Romery. Fortunately, the scenery in between was gorgeous. We were there during the vendanges<\/em> (harvest) and were able to see the workers in the vineyards hand-picking the grapes, which we had the pleasure of tasting directly from the vine.<\/p>\n

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Between Hautvilliers and Romery<\/em><\/p>\n

On arrival, we found a pretty house but hardly what we Americans think of as a major winery when we go wine tasting.\u00a0 Tribaut-Schlosser is hardly small \u2013 they produce 350,000 bottles each year \u2013 but they are tiny compared with grandes maisons<\/em> like Moet & Chandon or Taittinger.\u00a0 Still, everything is low key at Tribaut-Schlosser.\u00a0 When we entered, we found an empty reception area. We called out to see if anyone was there and a woman came down to greet us.\u00a0 She was pleased to offer us a d\u00e9gustation<\/em>, since evidently they don\u2019t receive many visitors who just happen to be passing through Romery.<\/p>\n

Tribaut-Schlosser makes an impressive number of Champagnes.\u00a0 Their basic offering, Origine, is an Assemblage (in this case, 50% Pinot Meunier, 30% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir).\u00a0 Their Blanc de Blanc (which they call Blanc de Champagne) is the one we had tasted in Qu\u00e9bec.\u00a0 There\u2019s also a ros\u00e9, a Blanc de Noir and a t\u00eate du cuv\u00e9e<\/em> they call Cuv\u00e9e Ren\u00e9.\u00a0 They also have two limited edition Champagnes, a brut and a ros\u00e9 they refer to as Les Cuv\u00e9es Authentique<\/em> which we did not try.\u00a0 After a pretty thorough tasting, we found we preferred the Blanc de Champagne that we were already familiar with and which is available in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

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Even though they were all so busy with the harvest, we were treated like visiting royalty.\u00a0 We were seated in a cozy tasting room, more like someone\u2019s living room, on a sofa in front of a barrel that served as a cocktail table.\u00a0 Our host thought nothing of opening bottle after bottle; she didn\u2019t want us to sample any wines that had already been opened.\u00a0 The assistant winemaker stopped by as did a member of the Tribaut family.\u00a0 (It seems that a Tribaut ancestor married a Schlosser back in the early 20th<\/sup> century.) \u00a0They were all so charming, it was as though we had dropped in on old friends.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re really going to have to drive a bit to find Champagne Tribaut-Schlosser.\u00a0 But we certainly found it worth the effort.<\/p>\n

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This story begins in the province of Qu\u00e9bec and ends in France.\u00a0 About a year ago, a friend in Qu\u00e9bec City told us about a great value for an inexpensive champagne she had tasted and liked very much.\u00a0 It was called Tribaut and it only cost 40 Canadian dollars or roughly 30 American.\u00a0 We tried … Continue reading Champagne Tribaut-Schlosser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}