Ain’t that the truth. The idea is so much fun, but then they sit and sit.
Oddly, it’s the less fancy and geeky mags I’m far more likely to open. I might take one to a restaurant with civilian couples, so I don’t have to bring the wine bag or something.
As I may have mentioned elsewhere, Polaner had a mid-October pre-arrival consumer Champagne tasting and sale for wines that arrived in December (and I received first week in Jan.). I liked the BdB and vintage Empreintes poured in October, but was really impressed by the BdN, one of only two wines I bought pre-arrival. A couple weeks ago, I opened a bottle of the BdN and it was not nearly as good as the one I had at the tasting but WAS consistent with the OP here. Don’t know what to make of it unless (1) something happened to the shipment, or (2) I had an off bottle, or (3) it needed more than a couple months to rest, which seems to be a “thing” empirically but is hard to understand chemically and in any case doesn’t exactly square with the sample bottle from October.
Not for us it ain’t! We go through mags of champagne like water. Every time we have 6 people, and often for just 4. Mags of champagne are so much better than 750s, and if you don’t finish, there’s always tomorrow.