CSB - Michael Cooper - Wine

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on
Gold Sport.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Took wine on the show now and the countdown clock
is definitely ticking over to Christmas Day. I think twenty
seven days till Christmas Day. Michael Cooper joined this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Michael, Good morning, Brian.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
And I guess there's lots of festivities around it this
time of year, Champagne being sprayed all over the place.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well, it's, you know, time to crack open the bubbly
or getting pretty close to it. And I saw just
a statement the other day by it. There's something called
the Union Debason to Champagne that means all the champagne
houses in France, and they were bragging about how Bubbly
is unique. They were saying it gives you greater pleasure

(00:56):
than wine without bubbles because it stimulates all of your
senses hearing, sight, smell, taste, even touch. So it sounds
sort of irresistible.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Doesn't it really? But you have some words of advice
when it does coming to does come to drinking, well,
not just bubbles but wine and alcohol in general.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, I think particularly with Bubbly, there's long been sort
of suggestions around that the bubbles in the wine carry
the alcohol into your blood stream faster than if you
were drinking still wine. So I was just very interested
to see recently a study in the UK that set
out to look at that. And they gave the people

(01:37):
in the study equal pores of a still wine and
sparkling wine of exactly the same alcohol strength. And then
they tested people after five minutes, and those who had
consumed the sparkling wine had a third more alcohol circulating
in their blood strength than those who were drinking the

(01:58):
wine with no bubbles.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
And so I think the lesson there is, you know,
if you're going into a party and you're going to
be enjoying a few glasses of bubbly, what I often
do is have a glass of milk, a glass or
two of milk before I go. And the other thing
is if you've got the chance to have a few nibbles,
that's a great idea as well, rather than sort of
just drinking two or three glasses a bubbly on an

(02:22):
empty stomach.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Very good words of advice. All right, A couple of
selections as far as bubbles are consumed. Let's start with
budget ones and go up the scale A wee bit.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, here's one a brand that I find is really
over delivering for value, and that is haha hah has
now a Hawks Bay based company. They have a broad
Kuve it's non vintage, which sells for twenty one dollars
and I've just tasted the latest batch and it's unexpectedly

(02:52):
good value. It's it's full of personality, it's got, it's
surprisingly mature, it's got it's a yeasty character. Is that
you'd expect, you know, in a more expensive Bubbly. It's vivacious,
it's basically dry, crisp, yeasty, toasty flavors showing excellent depth
and complexity. So that's haha. Brought Couve non vintage, which

(03:15):
listeners can buy for twenty one dollars and he's at
even lower price Bubbly. And this was the champion Bubbly
at the New World Wine Awards this year. Lindau Special
Reserve Rose non vintage, which you can buy seventeen dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, that's good.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's a really great value. It's pink orange, it's very lively,
it's got strong peach, strawberry, orange and spice flavors, and
it's unexpectedly sort of yeasty and mature. It's crisp, it's
basically dry, and it's seventeen dollars. You know, you could
easily pay round thirty dollars for wine of this quality.

(03:53):
So that Lindau Special Reserve Rose non vintage seventeen dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
You got something a little deer.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, it's Christmas, so you know, let's break out something,
you know, a little bit higher priced now one This
one is arguably the most awarded wine on the New
Zealand competition circuit over the last what twenty years. Dirts Mulbrook,
who've Blanc de blanc a year after year that's been

(04:23):
a top award winner. The twenty nineteen is on the
market now. It's made from chardonnay handpicked in Mulbero. It's
matured up to three years before it's disgorged. The latest release,
the twenty nineteen is typically delicious. It's got strong citrusy
flavors overlaid with yeasty and biscuity notes. It's quite vivacious,

(04:44):
basically dry, it's invitingly perfumed. So at thirty three dollars,
I think that's quite a distinguished wine. Dirt's Mulbro cuve
Blanc de Blanc twenty nineteen. And then let's go for
one that's forty nine dollars. It's a specialist producer, so

(05:05):
if you have this on Christmas Day, you'll have a
kind of a sense of having something special. It's S's
that spelt eases kai Kura Essential Metho traditional, non vintage.
So you have to track this down a bit. You
can buy it online. It's really a terrific blend of

(05:26):
chardonnay in Peno Wa, handpicked at Kai Kurra in twenty twenty.
It's spent three years on its US leaves. It's really refined.
It's got lovely penetrating citrusy fruit flavors. It's got excellent complexity.
If you haven't discovered yet the S's range of classy sparkings,
I think this one is the perfect introduction. S is

(05:49):
kai Kurer Essential Method Traditional, forty nine dollars. It's really top.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Flight, fantastic. Sounds good, Michael, enjoy, Thank you so much.
We'll talk again next week. Teacher will preach, and the
teacher will teach. Spiner will take and the pine, I'll
travel the rocks and even God