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Father's Day Ambassador - Wine and Champagne Experience

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This Father's Day, present dad with The Ambassadors of wine and champagne: Dom Perignon Champagne and 2000 Miriam Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. The world's finest Champagne, Dom Perignon, is known for its hallmark pinpoint bubbles, citrus flavors and creamy, toasty finish. The Miriam typifies excellence. She was one of the first women to graduate from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a crack shot with a rifle, and a passionate ocean swimmer. Like her, this is a superior wine. It was produced entirely from Cabernet Sauvignon grapes grown on the hillside of Soda Canyon at an elevation of 1500 feet in southern county. It is rich and intense. It was aged for two and half years in the new french oak barrels. Only 310 cases were produced.

This gift basket comes with an assortment of:
- Smoked Salmon
- Capelin Cavier
- Carr's Table Water Crackers
- Gourmet Cheese Spread
- Helen Grace Chocolates Truffles
- English Breakfast Tea
- Ghirardelli Chocolates

Dom Perignon Champagne: Dom Perignon is the prestige cuvTe of the giant Modt et Chandon Champagne house. It is named after the famous monk, who was the most important early influence in the development of Champagne into the sparkling wine we know today. It was not the first Champagne to use his name, as early in the last century small proprietaire-recoltants (farmer-growers) at Hautvillers, employed it for their wine. Unfortunately for them they did not register the name, Dom Perignon, as a trademark.

Dom Perignon was born Pierre Perignon in 1640, the son of a clerk to the local judge at Saint-Menehould, a small town to the east of the Champagne region. At the age of 19 he entered the Benedictine Order at the Abbey of Saint-Vannes at Verdun. When he was just 28 he was appointed cellarmaster at the Abbey of Hautvillers.

Long-time rumours that Dom Perignon had heightened tasting faculties because he was blind are completely without foundation. It seems that he did have a serious problem with his vision at one stage in his life but this healed in due course.

Whilst he is often attributed with the invention of Champagne, there are earlier recorded instances of the production of sparkling wines by the Champagne method. Nevertheless he was a remarkable viticulteur (grape grower) and winemaker and clearly well ahead of his generation. It is likely that he was the first to teach blending skills in the Champagne region, and he also appears to have been the first person to successfully contain the local sparkling wine in reinforced glass bottles by sealing them with Spanish corks.

However the first recorded production of bottle fermented sparkling wine is dated a century before Dom Perignon's birth, in 1531, at the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire at Limoux in southern France. This abbey was also a Benedictine property and it may well be that Dom Perignon received some guidance from its winemaking techniques, - but this is mere conjecture.

Sometime around the late 1920's, Champagne Modt et Chandon adopted his name for their new luxury or prestige cuvTe of Champagne. Helped in part by Hollywood glamour, this extremely well marketed brand has developed a widespread reputation in countries across the globe. In most vintages it has proved to be considerably above average in quality and is in huge demand. Its 1990 vintage is generally admired as an exceptional Champagne.

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