Grand Assembly of Crémants

John OK, this involves a lecture and a tip.

Adam A lecture.

John Yeah. This is another wine tip. People really love that.

Adam Yeah. People love the wine tip.

John And even though it’s up to nine bucks now, they changed the price. Still cheap. It’s still good.

Adam They heard it on the show. Like, hey, let’s jack it up. All those crazy podcasts.

John So this is another one of those little box sets that Costco put together.

Adam We like the box set.

John And this box set is painted turquoise. It’s not just wood. It’s actually went to trouble painting it. And it’s called the Grand Assembly. The Grand Assembly of these Crémant. There’s three wines. It’s $49.99. It’s not cheap.

Adam You get three wines for forty-nine ninety-nine?

John Yeah. But they’re three sparklers. And they’re all French. And they’re all Crémant.

Adam Oh, they’re all sparklers. I’m not a big fan of the sparklers.

John Yeah, you may not be. But a lot of people are. And I think they should be taken and drunk at dinner. They’re dinner wines. That’s what the champagne people want you to do. They want you to appreciate it as a dinner wine instead of a celebratory wine or something you dump on someone.

Adam Or christen a ship with.

John Champagne people in particular don’t like their stuff being abused like that.

Adam No, of course not.

John So Crémant is a special category of sparkling wine that’s made in the method of champagne, but it’s made throughout the country. And they’re called Crémant de this, Crémant de that, Crémant de this. Now, the ones that are in this, there’s three of them in this package. And it amounts to sixteen dollars and sixty cents a bottle, which is reasonable for a sparkler because champagnes, you even when you buy them direct from a guy who brings them in directly…

Adam It’s always going to be twenty-five bucks.

John Twenty-five is low. A good, a decent champagne is going to cost you thirty-five bucks and up. And the stuff that you drink, which is Bollinger, is like fifty.

Adam I drink Veuve Clicquot.

John I would not drink Veuve unless it was vintage.

Adam I like Bollinger, but it’s a little expensive. That’s if we go eat with…

John Yeah, you have somebody else buy it, of course.

Adam Yes. Hello.

John But if you like Veuve, you would like these Crémants. I think they’re better.

Adam Really?

John Well, Veuve Clicquot is like… except for the vintage. If you people want to drink Veuve Clicquot, go look what the ones that have a vintage date. Boom. Now you’re getting the good quality stuff.

Adam Oh, I didn’t know.

John What you’re doing is mass produced junk.

Adam I’m just drinking junk. I mean, I might as well…

John You don’t like champagne.

Adam I just go kill myself. I’m drinking junk. We have the Heath winery here. Heath. And Heath does some great sparklers. Texas sparklers.

John Good for them. I’m sure it’s fabulous. So I’m sure they’re overpriced.

Adam By the way, for 18…

John Ah, you said by the way.

Adam I did. I stopped myself. For 18 years, no matter what wine I’m drinking, John always says it’s shit.

John I know it’s not true.

Adam Ah, unless it’s somebody else’s wine. There’s some really expensive thing that I didn’t buy. But anything I’m like… You drink… Oh, I really like this wine. You’re like… You’ve always knocking my wines.

John So these three wines are $49.99… Yeah, that’s the reason I’m doing these tips. I’m a wine snob. Of course I am. Now there’s a Crémant… I’m sorry. A Crémant de…

There’s a Crémant de Bordeaux, which is extremely rare. And I’ve never actually seen one before. And I’m glad I got that. And then there’s a Crémant de Alsace, which is very common. They’re using different grapes, but they’re using the champagne methodology, except in Burgundy, which is the Crémant de Bourgogne, which they have in there. And this is the wine that is made with the same grapes they use in champagne. Doesn’t quite create the champagne chalkiness, but at the same time, it produces a terrific product. And that’s the stuff I’m always recommending people get for their when they get married and they have the celebration afterwards. The special occasion you pass out free champagne. You don’t pass out free champagne. You pass out free Crémant. Nobody knows the difference.

Adam Except you, you’d be at the wedding going, what a crap wine you gave me.

John No, these Crémants are delicious. I’m not saying they’re bad at all. They’re quite good. So I would recommend people pick this pack up and get into Crémants and drink them for dinner.