Champagne and Eggs Benedict

The wonderful Bibendum have been running some wonderful wine tasting sessions for London’s food blogging community. This week Magnus and I were fortunate enough to attend the most dazzling so far, champagne tasting!

This was particularly interesting, as although I *cough* often taste more than one wine in an evening, it is fairly rare for me to taste more than one champagne. This event provided the opportunity of tasting twelve Champagnes for four different houses, each house providing a non-vintage, vintage and rose.

As always with these sessions, I was surprised to find just how distinctive each champagne was and slightly less surprised to discover that I always preferred the vintage!

Most importantly, the event was a fantastic opportunity to ask the champagne experts about what to drink with Eggs Benedict. Robert who was representing Moët et Chandon answered with out hesitation that the best Champagne would be Vintage Krug ’98. Super.

Now, not one for drinking alcohol at breakfast usually, I thought that a special occasion would be the best time to test out this fine (and lets face it – expensive) recommendation. In a few months time, i’m heading for one of those birthdays which are divisible by 10 and I think that would be the perfect occasion. Watch this space!