Blanc de Blancs - WineSpeed - Karen MacNeil

Blanc de Blancs

Literally, “white from whites.” A golden Champagne or SPARKLING WINE made entirely from chardonnay grapes.

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Karen MacNeil and Hugh Johnson in Conversation 2023 – Highlights

“We have 90 wines by the glass, typically about 30 rieslings. We offer our guests two sips of riesling, one off-dry and one trocken, then walk away. More than 50 percent of the time, they choose the one with more residual sugar, and that’s great! We want to rock people’s worlds. Tell them stories about who is making the wine and where it came from, not screaming about sugar levels.”

**— Paul Grieco, owner of New York’s Terroir restaurant, as quoted in Science Makes a Mockery of Tasting Notes by Kathleen Willcox (Wine Searcher May 3, 2021)**