Vauversin Grand Cru Extra Brut 2010

Laurent Perrier is pioneer the Brut Nature category, a wine with no added sugar.

Laurent Perrier Ultra Brut expresses the quintessential character of champagne and was known as a “Great Wine without sugar”.

Launched in 1981, Laurent-Perrier Ultra Brut is a true illustration of the House’s know-how.

Blending and Wine Making:

55% Chardonnay
45% Pinot Noir

One or two reserve wines from a complementary year are blended in Laurent Perrier Ultra Brut with around 15 cru wines used in the composition.

Laurent Perrier Ultra Brut has zero dosage – the bunches of grapes are rigorously selected to ensure that only grapes with high sugar levels and low acidity are retained. These conditions are necessary to create a finished champagne that has the required balance without any dosage.

Ideally this Champagne should be aged for a minimum of 6 years.

Tasting Notes:

Very pale, crystal-bright in colour.

Intense and complex on the nose with a wide range of aromas including citrus and white fruits, honeysuckle flowers and iodine notes which give off an impression of freshness.

This airy and delicate wine of a surprising length is characterised by high purity of taste, a long and non-saturating finish.

Billecart Salmon Brut NV. Pale gold. Fresh peach, pear and nectarine on the nose, with a complicating note of white flowers. Fleshy, plush and ripe, with strong peach and ripe pear flavors in a more powerful and less restrained style than last year’s release. Firms up on the finish, picking up a mineral note and showing very good balance and length

Grand Siecle Grande Cuvée Champagne is Laurent Perrier’s luxury cuvée. At the Palace of Versailles Louis XIV was the first French King to drink Champagne. Louis XIV’s era became known as the Grand Siecle – the “Great Century”.

Bottled in a replica of a 17th Century bottle evoking the radiance of that period, Laurent Perrier’s prestige Cuvée embodies luxury, magnificence and elegance. A blend of Pinot Chardonnay and Black, with the latter being slightly dominant.

For the Rolls-Royce of Champagne blending you can’t go much higher than Laurent-Perrier’s luxury Cuvée Grand Siecle. It will please serious drinkers with it’s delicate balance and honeyed, hazelnut flavours.

The Champagne Jacquart Brut Mosaique NV is an impressive non-vintage Champagne. The ‘House of Jacquart’ is a Chardonnay Grower’s Cooperative and their wines are closely linked to the ‘terroir’ of the Champagne region. There is integrity at every step in the way the Brut Mosaique is grown and made, as well as the position it occupies within the Champagne industry. Beautiful with fresh oysters or as an aperitif. Highly recommended.

Gosset Grand Millesime 2012

Chardonnay 67%, Pinot Noir 33%

Vinification and traditional aging on lees avoiding any premature oxidation. Malolactic fermentation carefully avoided in order to preserve the naturally fruity aroma of the wines and to ensure perfect conservation.
Gross dosage (8 g/l) to maintain the balance between freshness, fruitiness and vinosity without masking the character of the wine and its purity.

A very fresh and expressive initial nose blending an assortment of flavors of white-fleshed fruits such as pear, peach which develops into grapefruit and even anise and liquorice.

The very fine and fleshy palate retains an extraordinary lightness throughout with aromas of small stone fruits such as plum, mirabelle and especially pear, followed by aromas of citrus fruits such as orange and pink grapefruit.The wine expresses very good length with a saline finish.

About Gosset

Established since 1584, Gosset is one of the smallest Grande Marque Champagne producers. Whilst the champagnes that they produce have never been plentiful in quantity, they have distinguished themselves with the consistently superb quality throughout the entire range of champagnes produced. Remaining a family owned house, the Gosset family sold the business to the Cointreau family in 1994.

Starting with their flagship champagne, the superbly aged Grande Reserve multi-vintage, it is clear that they have sought to exceed all standards required by the region. Firstly, and most strikingly, the presentation is remarkable in heavy dark antique bottles that are unique to Gosset. Instead of aging this champagne for 3 years on lees before bottling, Gosset have aged this blend for four and half years.

A delicious, persistent rosé that works equally well as an aperitif or with elaborate meals. – Gilbert & Gaillard, 2016.

Colour
Intense salmon pink.

Nose
Displays red berry-fruit aromas of ripe redcurrants, cherries, wild strawberries, giving way to notes of plum.

Palate
A fresh and full style of champagne with a fine finish and notes of peach and apricot.

Technical notes
This cuvée has all the hallmark Chardonnay finesse (35%-40%), rounded out by the ripeness of the Pinot Meunier (25-30%) and the structure of the Pinot Noir, of which 15%-18% is vinified as red wine. The addition of Pinot Noir red wine to the blend (15-18%) and a light dosage of 10g/L result in a very complete, balanced champagne.

Lanson Extra Age Brut is a blend of three exceptional Vintages bringing together the best Champagne Crus : 2004, 2005 and 2006. Blended and matured in Maison Lanson’s historic cellars, the blend has waited more than five years to achieve its ultimate expression. The harmony and balance of this Lanson Extra Age Brut NV wine give full expression to the power of the Pinot Noirs from the finest areas of Verzenay and Bouzy. The Chardonnays from the Cote des Blancs: Choilly, Avize, Oger and Vertus, in all their diversity, add a touch of finesse. On the palate, the attack is ample, the body generous and complex and the finale the epitome of finesse and freshness.

‘Sous Bois’-being French for ‘under wood’ – is a nod back to the traditional past of Champagne when wines were fermented and aged in oak barrels. This method adds texture, weight and character to the wine and imparts a smoky, toastiness on the finish. Its Impressive, Rich and pinoty with smoky charcuterie, spice and almond aromas, some strawberry on palate. Soft and round; a magic wine and great with food.

Champagne Gremillet House was founded in 1979 on the initiative of Jean-Michel Gremieux. His first steps were aimed at exporting, and, in particular, at the diplomatic network, which testifies to confidence in the quality of drinks. Today, at least 50 embassies and consulates in the world choose Champagne House Gremiye. From year to year, the Gremiye family improves its drinks in order to reveal the typicalness and personality of the terroir. Much attention is paid to the art of blending: combinations in different proportions of wines from different varieties, terroirs and crops. Before the release of the wine are evaluated by a special tasting committee.

Champagne with a special character and aromatic fruity-floral shades, made only during the years of exceptional harvest. When creating Bruht, the best Pinot Noir grapes are used. Only juice obtained after the first pressing is allowed to produce champagne. Fermentation at 16 ° C and malolactic fermentation at 18 ° C are carried out in steel tanks. Then the wine is aged for at least 36 months.

This family-owned producer in the Aube region of Champagne has made a pale colored rosé. Dominated by 70% Pinot Noir, it’s ripe and softly rich, its red fruit balanced with an almost-warm acidity that gives it a welcoming character. Drink now.