#Blanc de Blancs

[shibasommelier]

2015 Pascal Agrapart Venus Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut Nature Millèsime

Happy Mother's Day to all the hardworking, super moms out there! My humoms has to put up with me everyday so she's welcome for the honor of doing so. Celebrating her and all moms out there today with this Blanc de Blancs bubbly. Golden ripe apples, lemons, hint of shortbread, white flowers, and mint on the nose. Apples, lemon cookies, ginger snaps, and chalk on the palate. Really delicious stuff! Cheers!

4/5 bones

$$$$$

Chardonnay

12.5% abv

Champagne, FRANCE

[jamesthewineguy]

Pure elegance, a lyrical wine - Delamotte Blanc de Blancs!

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Guillaume Sergent

Guillaume Sergent Premier Cru Les Prés Dieu Extra Brut Vrigny, Champagne 2020 100% Chardonnay

Guillaume is an oenologist, an expert in the science of wine and the techniques of wine making. His family have been growing vines around Vrigny since mid 19th century.

In 2008 he took over the family estate with his brother who sells his grapes to moet and chandon. These are serious grapes!

This champagne is a result of blending only Chardonnay grapes from two premier cru villages in Montagne de Reims, Champagne - Les Prés + Les Vignes Dieu.

Prominent flavours are vibrant apple with florals, salinity and brioche.

It is a true expression of the terroir - it spends only four months in oak as Guillaume doesn’t want the delicate notes to be overwhelmed. Sweetness of champagne explained

Champagne 101 - the grapes Champagne tends to be a blend of three main grape varieties. These are Pinot noir (orange and red fruit flavours), Pinot meunier (richness and yellow apple) and Chardonnay (citrus and marzipan).

Common styles of champagne include: 1. Non vintage - consistent house style wines 2. Blanc de blancs - 100% Chardonnay 3. Blanc de noirs - Pinot noir and Pinot meunier 4. Rosé 5. Vintage and special cuvée

Tasting notes: apple pie, apple blossom, caramel, buttered toast Pairing: seafood, fried food, desserts

[mywinepal]

My Video Interview With Christian from Treveri Cellars at Taste Washington 2024

My #Video #Interview With Christian from Treveri Cellars at @TasteWashington 2024. #WAwine #organic @wa_state_wine #sparklingwine

Christian from Treveri Cellars This was the last video interview I made during The Grand Tasting at Taste Washington 2024.  Treveri Cellars makes organic sparkling wines and has been doing it for many years. While some wines are made with “traditional” sparkling wine grapes, like Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, they also venture out and make sparkling Gewurztraminer and Riesling. I tasted a glass of…

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Via twitter

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April 20, Beijing, China, National Museum of China/中国国家博物馆 (Part 1 - Dehua white porcelain exhibition/德化白瓷展):

Aaand finally, the National Museum of China/中国国家博物馆! I was lucky enough to see the famed Dehua white porcelain exhibition/德化白瓷展 here. Some of you may recognize some of these pieces already, since pictures and shorts of them have been circulating online way before I went on this trip, but there are many many other pieces too. The pieces I post here are only a small portion of the entire exhibition, so if you ever get a chance to see the exhibition elsewhere in person, don't hesitate. This stuff is amazing.

First up is one of the two that has been gaining popularity online, the piece named 神话 or "Legend".

The first time I saw a porcelain piece like this, I thought that the clothing part was made with paper? But no, the light fabric of the clothing, the hair, it's all porcelain. Keep in mind when looking through these pictures: every part of every piece is porcelain.

This piece is the other one that was becoming popular, the piece named simply 纸, or "Paper". If you don't look up close and see the glossy surface, you can't tell it's actually porcelain. I cannot for the life of me imagine the kind of magic that was used to turn clay into this

Anyway, this is a good point to introduce Dehua porcelain a little bit. Dehua porcelain is a regional specialty of Dehua/德化, which is located in Fujian province, and is known for its expressiveness and white color. For this reason it's also known in the West as "Blanc de Chine" (French: "white of China"), and this should be the reason why this exhibition is named 中国白, which basically means the same thing. The history of Dehua porcelain goes back to Song dynasty (960 - 1279), and it is still being produced today. Many of the pieces I'm posting here are modern pieces.

But Dehua white porcelain can be colored too (I imagine the color must be painted on later, because the white comes from the clay itself), and when it is colored, it looks like it came right out of a painting

This piece is especially amazing to me. Look at the texture, look at those details. Zoom in and you will find that there are actually a bunch of porcelain ants on this porcelain tree stump. Porcelain ants. I never expected to use porcelain as an adjective when describing ants. Wtf. It's like a manifestation of a scene from an older animated movie.

Peanuts are called 花生 in Chinese, which literally means "flower grow", and because it also has a long shelf life, it symbolizes longevity and a happy marriage. Also a fun fact: because Watson of Sherlock Holmes is usually phoenetically translated as 华生 (huá shēng) in Chinese and sounds similar to 花生 (huā shēng), you will find that many in the Chinese SH fandom refers to Watson as "peanut".

This piece is titled 春色满园, or "garden filled with spring scenery". This is also a common 4-character word used to describe gardens in spring. I'm guessing the figure depicted here is one of the flower gods. It is one of my personal favorites because of its superb depiction of movement, it's as if the flower god will really fly away on clouds at any moment

More depictions of traditional Chinese deities, specifically Chang'e/嫦娥, the moon goddess. That moon rabbit is too cute.

Depictions of what I'm assuming is the Four Heavenly Kings/四大天王, based on the items they are holding. The Four Heavenly Kings are Buddhist deities.

Look at her clothing! That porcelain is so thin it's almost see-through! Also is it depicting Li Qingzhao/李清照, the famous female poet from Song dynasty? She does have a famous ci poem that's about paddling a boat in a lake full of lotuses while drunk

The piece titled 锦绣前程, or "future as vibrant and prosperous as silk brocade". This is also a common 4-character word used in well wishing. The figure in this piece is holding a xiuqiu/绣球, a ball made of silk, which was usually seen as a token of love

Somewhat more modern-themed pieces:

Among the hundreds of amazing pieces, this one caught my attention for its unique texture. When everyone else was trying to turn the clay into these thin sheets representing fabric or paper or flower petals, this artist took the noodle approach. Not many visitors seemed to like it, but I think it's pretty cool

Piece titled 运势如虹, or "fortune like the rainbow", also a 4-character word used in well wishing. Traditionally horses symbolize vitality and success, hence why many people use the words 马到成功 ("horse's arrival brings success") and 龙马精神 ("vitality of dragons and horses") in well wishes during Year of the Horse

Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Dehua white porcelain exhibition!

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Knives Out (2019) and Glass Onion (2022) having the two main leads as an iconic gay detective and a working class woman/ of color whose combo is so menacingly whipsmart and fun they turn rich people games in on its head eventually leading to said rich people's downfall is the most based thing about these movies

edit: yeah, yeah i know ana is a white cuban, that's why i put the "/" at the end of "woman"

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A still from the seance scene in the German silent film 'Dr Mabuse, the gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler), directed by Fritz Lang. 1922.

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Adrien Agreste and his evil (?) clones

Original here!

Alt text and bonus below:

Text: People always talk about evil clones like…

Text: “Oooh, a dark mirror!” Picture: Claw Noir forcing Chat Noir to cataclysm him.

Text: “Oooh, what if you saw what a cruel person you are capable of becoming?” Picture: Nightormentor whispering in Antichat’s ear.

Text: But what if you were the evil clone?

Text: What if you looked in the mirror Picture: Felix confronting Adrien in Risk

Text: And what you saw was so bright it blinded you? Pictures: Felix reclaiming his amok // Strikeback falling into the sun // Felix holding the camouflaged Peacock brooch for the first time

Text: What if you had to know Pictures: Felix’s sewer speech // Felix handing Kagami her amok // Argos drawing a heart on Kagami’s window

Text: exactly how good Picture: Felix standing up to Gabriel’s gigantic silhouette

Text: you could have been? Pictures: Adrien crying upon learning his father’s death // Adrien feeling the absence of his Miraculous on his finger

Text: Imagine thinking you have achieved your happy ending Picture: Adrien waking up in the new world

Text: that you’ve finally managed to claw it from the hands of fate itself Pictures: Adrien getting his Miraculous // Marinette sliding the twin rings back on his finger // Adrien holding the lucky charm Marinette made him

Text: only to discover a mirror of yourself who lives in a happiness you hadn’t even been able to imagine! Picture: Kagami sketching Felix by the pool

Text: Imagine meeting a version of yourself who considers you to be evil Picture: Cat Walker standing in front of the full moon

Text: and your happy ending Pictures: Close-up on Adrinette’s hands as they kiss in Chat Blanc // Post-reveal hug in Ephemeral // Adrinette kiss in Recreation

Text: to be a horror story. Pictures: Ephemeral using his powers on Marinette // Chat Blanc preparing a cataclysm // Gabriel’s statue

Nota bene: the pictures are vignetted in white, and the effect gets stronger with each new row.

Please also take this gem from @dragongutsixofficial and I’s texts:

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Frank Family Blanc de Blancs Sparkling Wine

Frank Family Blanc de Blancs Sparkling Wine

As we anticipate holiday festivities, now is the time to decide what bubbles you will be popping during Christmas celebrations and to welcome the new year. One of the best we have enjoyed lately comes from Frank Family Vineyards. The winery’s Lewis Vineyard in cool Carneros grows gorgeous orchard and stone fruit-filled Chardonnay for the winery’s five-year-aged vintage Blanc de Blancs sparkling…

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Knives Out movies are basically a gay southern man helping women/of color get independence and/or revenge from rich people that mistreat them or their family. And I think that is perfect.

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(by Marsumilae)

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