G.H. Mumm Cordon Rouge Rose Champagne on SALE for $30!!
"in a perfect world, everyone would have a glass of Champagne every evening"
Willie Gluckstern
The price on the top Champagne names continues to go up and whenever we can find a bottle of Champagne that we can sell at $30 we will stop everything and get this special deal out to you our Wine Drinking People.
This is a large producer but they make some very good bubbles and if you visit Riems G.H. Mumm is a must see as they have the most extensive caves that exist in Champagne.
It’s Champagne season and with the dollar buying only .85 Euros today along with the 15% tariffs on French wines we would just assume that prices would be going up on our favorite Champagne brands. So, when I get a deal on any Champagnes today I jump on it as prices on most of the top brands are only moving in an upward direction.
Rose Champagne can be made a few different ways. The saignee method (French for bleeding) is where they leave the red grapes in contact with the skins for a brief period of time which usually creates a darker color and a more full-bodied style of rose. Most houses want a more consistent color and a lighter fresher style of rose so blend still red wines with the vin clair made from both red and white grapes. The red grapes for the vin clair are not left in contact with the skins for any period of time so all the wines are clear in color so essentially white wines made from red grapes. Rose Champagne are usually more expensive than the reds as the process is more labor intensive to make a rose than a clear Chamapgne. This may be the greatest deal every on a bottle of Pink bubbles!!
G.H. Mumm Cordon Rouge Rose Brut Champagne at $30!!
NV G.H. Mumm Grand Cordon Rose Champagne
Price: $56.25 Sale Price: $30.00
G.H. Mumm Grand Cordon Rosé displays the bold power of Pinot Noir (60%), which is the signature grape of Maison Mumm. Almost all great Champagne relies on blending and Chardonnay (22%) is added to the blend to enhance the floral aspects of the wine, and Pinot Meunier (18%) adds a softness and contributes to the round, ripe fruit character. Then 14% still red wine is added to the blend creating the beautiful rosé color. The wine is aged for a minimum of 24 months before disgorgement.
(91 Points) Smoky hints of grilled nut and toasted brioche provide a rich base for flavors of baked raspberry, Mandarin orange peel and briny oyster shell and saline notes in this creamy Champagne, with a tangy spine of acidity. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier. Drink now. Wine Spectator
A bit about GH Mumm
Between 1820 and 1845, in one of the periods of friendship between France and Germany, five Champagne Houses were established by Germans following the example of the first - that of Florens-Louis Heidsieck in 1785. The Champagne House of Mumm began life in 1827 when P A Mumm Giesler & Co was founded in Reims by Gottlieb de Mumm, his brothers Jules and Edouard, and a colleague, Friedrich Giesler. Peter Arnold Mumm had been a German wine merchant since 1761 and owned vineyards in the Rhine.
Mumm had great success in its first year of trading, and one of the earliest customers was a Baron de Rothschild of Paris. Gradually Giesler and other partners drifted off, and the firm split on the death of Gottlieb into Jules Mumm and G H Mumm. The fortunes of G H Mumm steadily improved, and a major marketing coup was pulled off in 1876, when a bottle had a red silk ribbon tied around its neck (the same ribbon as the Légion d'Honneur); it was sealed with a label bearing the words Cordon Rouge. A great marquee, which survives to this day, Mumm's best selling flagship, the Cordon Rouge non-vintage Champagne was born. At this time Mumm owned virtually no vineyards, except for a tiny area in Verzenay, purchased in 1840. However, an ambitious program of acquisition was begun in 1882, with about twenty acres in Cramant in the Côte des Blancs.
By 1914 Mumm had a total of 125 acres of vineyards. This was the beginning of a sad era for Europe and Champagne in particular. At this time the House of Mumm was being run by Georges Hermann von Mumm, who though he lived and worked in France, was still a German national. Von Mumm was jailed for the duration of the war, and the House of Mumm was expropriated. Amazingly, production continued through much of the war with Georges Robinet - Mumm's second in charge - installed as manager and with women working in place of their husbands in the cellars. However, the vineyards were devastated - the Marne was the scene of some of the heaviest battles in the war. After the war Georges Robinet continued as general manager, greatly assisted by a Paris lawyer named René Lalou, who joined Mumm in 1920. During the period between the two wars Mumm prospered under the direction of Lalou, but disaster struck again with the return of the invading Germans in 1939. Godefroy Hermann de Mumm, son of Georges Hermann, returned triumphant from Germany to take control of the firm, ousting Robinet and Lalou. Between 1940 and 1944 Mumm appeared to be the favorite Champagne of the occupying army - they purchased more than three million bottles! De Mumm's reign was to be short-lived; he fled in August 1944, taking the House's profits with him. Shortly afterwards, Champagne Mumm was being poured to celebrate the arrival of the liberating troops.
During the post war years Mumm truly began to prosper, and eventually grew to become the second largest Champagne firm in France, superseded only by Moët. In 1972 Mumm was taken over by one of its shareholders, the giant Seagram Company. This group also embraces Perrier-Jouët (run very separately in Epernay) and Heidsieck Monopole. The Chairman of Mumm is Alain de Gunzburg, the son-in-law of Seagram's founder, Samuel Bronfman. Mumm is truly an international Champagne - poured in liberal quantities in New York nightclubs and top Paris restaurants. Mumm now owns almost 500 acres of vineyards throughout the Champagne region - they supply about 20% of the needs of the House. The rest come from the usual sources, with the emphasis on pinot noir and chardonnay. Current production is close to 1 million cases annually. The cellars are excavated galleries, not the crayères found in some parts of Reims, and took 70 years to construct. Winemaking is overseen by the technical director, Monsieur Carré, who looks for vinosity and character in his wines (hardly surprising when one learns that he once worked for the inimitable House of Krug.) Says Carré: "I have to temper the pride of the chardonnay, moderate the mettle of the pinot noir and calm the nervousness of the pinot meunier." Coming from a Frenchman, this is a perfectly normal description of the art of blending.
The vintage Cordon Rouge is often more of an expression of the year than of skillful blending. The single-cru Mumm de Cremant made exclusively from chardonnay from the grand cru Cramant vineyards in the Côtes des Blancs, is more of an expression of the terroir and of balanced, refined chardonnay fruit. At the top of the hierarchy are the Mumm Grand Cordon and Grand Cordon Rosé. The name of the remarkable René Lalou lives on in another prestige cuvée. The Mumm René Lalou bottling is a marked contrast to the more elegant Grand Cordon bottling. René Lalou stands comparisons with the heavyweights of Champagne; it is full-bodied and rich, but without abandoning the refinement which is the hallmark of Champagne Mumm.
Cordon Rouge is still the Mumm flagship, after almost 120 years. The non-vintage brut is among the softest, lightest and most subtle Champagnes. Mumm uses up to 77 wines to make up the blend of Cordon Rouge. Well-structured, tonic, elegant and long, Cordon Rouge sums up the spirit, know-how and dynamism of the Mumm champagne house.
New research shows that drinking one to three glasses of champagne a week may counteract the memory loss associated with ageing, and could help delay the onset of degenerative brain disorders, such as dementia.
Scientists at the University of Reading have shown that the phenolic compounds found in champagne can improve spatial memory, which is responsible for recording information about one's environment, and storing the information for future navigation.
The compounds work by modulating signals in the hippocampus and cortex, which control memory and learning. The compounds were found to favourably alter a number of proteins linked to the effective storage of memories in the brain. Many of these are known to be depleted with age, making memory storage less efficient, and leading to poorer memory in old age and conditions such as dementia. Champagne slows these loses and therefore may help prevent the cognitive losses that occur during typical and atypical brain ageing.
Champagne has relatively high levels of phenolics compared to white wine, deriving predominantly from the two red grapes, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, which are used in its production along with the white grape Chardonnay. It is these phenolic compounds which are believed to be responsible for the beneficial effects of champagne on the brain.
Professor Jeremy Spencer, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, said: "These exciting results illustrate for the first time that the moderate consumption of champagne has the potential to influence cognitive functioning, such as memory. Such observations have previously been reported with red wine, through the actions of flavonoids contained within it.
"However, our research shows that champagne, which lacks flavonoids, is also capable of influencing brain function through the actions of smaller phenolic compounds, previously thought to lack biological activity. We encourage a responsible approach to alcohol consumption, and our results suggest that a very low intake of one to two glasses a week can be effective."
Dr. David Vauzour, the researcher on the study, added: "in the near future we will be looking to translate these findings into humans. This has been achieved successfully with other polyphenol-rich foods, such as blueberry and cocoa, and we predict similar outcomes for moderate Champagne intake on cognition in humans."
Previous research from the University of Reading revealed that two glasses of champagne a day may be good for your heart and circulation and could reduce the risks of suffering from cardiovascular disease and stroke.
The paper is published in Antioxidants and Redox Signalling.
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There is nothing that says party like a big bottle and in case you have not heard as of July 1st it will be legal to sell bottles up to 15 liters in the state of Florida! Thanks to our good friend Chip Lamarca who is the state representative that has been working on the bill to make this happen over the last five years and Governor Ron Desantis was here at Wine Watch to sign the bill into law! We have one of the largest collections of big bottles in the world and we have plenty of really big bottles for any occaision on SALE for the next two weeks until the end of the year!
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