champagne

NV  Blanc de Noirs

100% pinot meunier from a single parcel called "La Sente au Beurre" in soils of marl over limestone, facing southwest. Base wine is from 2017 and is aged for nine months in enamel lined tanks. Aged in bottle sur lattes for a minimum of 3 years. Dosage 8 g/l Current release disgorged June 2022 ---- "A parcel in the northwest corner of the Champagne vineyards has produced this ripe, richly mature wine. It is attractively floral, with a taut edge and ripe creamed apple flavors. Enjoy this very approachable Champagne now. Roger Voss" - Wine Enthusiast ---- *Recommended Dec. 4th by industry publication VinePair & Lei Wine Director Matt Turner as a top bottle for the holiday table.

2018  Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut

Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut ---- 100% Chardonnay ---- "The 2018 Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs les Grandes Crayères 1er cru is a savory, intensely mineral and driven wine.  Chalk, mint, white flowers and dried herbs all grace this linear, taut Champagne.  The Crayères is understated and classy from start to finish.  It’s classic Lahèrte all the way.  Dosage is 2-4 grams per liter.  Disgorged November 2021."

2007  Gonet-Médeville Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs

(Slightly scratched label) Gonet-Médeville Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs ---- "Features fragrant aromas of jasmine and stargazer lily that waft through a lovely range of white cherry, chopped almond and candied ginger flavors and a rich, underlying streak of salinity. Plush in texture, with the detailed flavor range structured by a mouthwatering, crystalline frame of acidity." - 94pts, Wine Spectator ---- "You’d think the debut of Gonet-Médeville’s 2007 Grand Cru ‘Louvière’ would be met with deafening fanfare and critical acclaim. Instead, just 60 bottles were quietly ushered into America, making this one of the year’s greatest, rarest, and most clandestine Champagnes." - Mark Osburn, Sommelier & Champagne Specialist ---- "What made me want to make Champagne was wines from '29, '45, '55, '59, '61, '64 - I want to make wines like that", says Xavier. You need have no fear of cellaring these wines to see how they evolve, however delicious they are now. ---- Louvière is very crispy, intense, crystalline and pure, definitively a great Champagne for aperitif while Champ d'Alouette is much more powerful, complex and gastronomic. Dosage: 2g/l Time on lees: 11 years (disgorged in 2019)

NV  

100% Pinot Noir. Hand harvested per appellation requirements from the villages of Les Riceys, Channes and Buxeuil. Fermented and stored in enameled steel tanks. Three years aging sur latte. ---- Our favorite recent bubbly find, this is a remarkable 100% Pinot Noir wine that drinks with a beautiful citric brightness, making it a particularly excellent aperitif bottle. "Pale straw color with a copper hue and young vivid mousseux. The nose displays ripe pear, peach and some red berry notes with a hint of fresh butter. Bone dry palate, a crisp acidity underneath, rather mellow creaminess, ripe fruit with an emphasis on darker Pinot flavors with a good grip and a long lingering finish." - 91 points, Andreas Larsson 

2020  Coteaux Champenois Blanc Volibarts

Coteaux Champenois Blanc ---- ""The 2020 Coteaux Champenois Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Hommage à Camille is a beautifully precise, incisive wine, unwinding in the glass with notes of white peach, sweet citrus fruit, freshly baked bread and flowers. Medium-bodied, pure and racy, with a tightly wound core and a long, saline finish, it's the best rendition yet of this cuvée from Roederer. - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate

2020  Coteaux Champenois Rouge Charmont

Coteaux Champenois Rouge ---- ""The finest release of this cuvée so far is the 2020 Coteaux Champenois Mareuil-sur-Aÿ Hommage à Camille, an intensely flavored but weightless red that offers up aromas of dark berries, spices, cinnamon and cloves. Medium-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, with lively acids and powdery structuring tannins, it concludes with a delicately oak-inflected finish. As readers will remember, it derives from a 0.43-hectare parcel in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ lieu-dit Charmont that was planted with Burgundian Pinot Noir selections in 2002 and farmed with the intention of producing a still wine. It's matured in one-third new oak, including some 500-liter barrels, from Taransaud, Séguin Moreau and Lagrange." - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate

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2009  Gonet-Médeville Extra Brut

An MFW favorite! From 0.5 hectares in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger Champs d’Alouettes and Ambonnay Grandes Ruelles, which are both Grand Cru parcels. 60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir fermented in used barrels. Monumental and vigorous, mouth-filling and near-perfect - its seamless, lingering finish makes this great Grand Cru a show-stopper.

2005  Gonet-Médeville Extra Brut

Moderately golden. A ripe, mature and penetrating nose of citrus, floral notes and white peach introduces rather rich, round and voluminous flavors that possess a moderate effervescence along with excellent complexity while terminating in a mouth coating finish. Monumental and vigorous, mouth-filling and near-perfect - its seamless, lingering finish makes this great Grand Cru a show-stopper. 60% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Noir fermented in used barrels. Monumental and vigorous, mouth-filling and near-perfect.