This year, we'll share what we have learned about wine from generous wine mentors, like Michael Serpa of Select Oyster Bar and Little Whale restaurants. This is a special year for Michael. It's the tenth anniversary of Select Oyster, and he has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Northeast. Here's to Michael and his outstanding team at both restaurants.
In 2015, we wrote about sharing the taste of Champagne Jacquesson Cuvée 736 with Michael.
In the process, he changed our choice of glassware for sparkling wines. He said, "Any nicer sparkling wine, I think, just works much better in a standard kind of wine glass rather than a flute, just because you get the aroma..." "When you're drinking great wine," he continued, "I think it should be in a proper glass where you're going to get the full experience of the wine." This tip has added to our enjoyment of our monthly toasts for the past decade.
Trying wines from different places, made with different grapes and produced by different methods, adds spice to our monthly ritual. Since 2007, we have raised a glass of sparkling wine to greet each new month!
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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
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