2012 Salon • Brut Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil
Rating 98+ points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2025 - 2050
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 24th Sep 2021
Source September 2021 Week 4, The Wine Advocate
Back in 2014, Salon's president Didier Depond was quoted in the press as saying that “since 2008, there has been no genuinely great vintage in Champagne" and that a 2012 from Salon wouldn't be released. But the just-released 2012 Brut Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil shows that he had good reason to change his mind, as to my palate this is, after the 2008, the finest Salon produced this millennium. Unwinding in the glass with notes of citrus oil, wet stones, freshly baked bread, white currants and oyster shell, it's full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a tightly wound core of fruit, racy acids and an elegant pinpoint mousse. Concluding with a long and resonant finish, this is a structured and powerful Salon that's a lot more incisive than, for example, the 2002 at the same stage, but which also carries more muscle and substance than a leaner vintage such as 2007. For readers that have balked at the pricing of the magnum-only 2008, the 2012 isn't far off the latter's level in quality, and will presumably be distributed more conventionally.
NV Louis Roederer • Brut Collection 243
Rating 92 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2035
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 1st Sep 2022
Source Issue 262 End of August 2022, The Wine Advocate
Based on the 2018 vintage and complemented by reserve wines from a solera established in 2012, as well as younger foudre-aged reserve wines, Roederer's newly released NV Brut Collection 243 is a pillowy, enveloping Champagne evocative of crisp stone fruits, honeycomb, white flowers and buttery pastry. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and generous, with an ample core of fruit, bright acids and a saline finish, it will offer demonstrative drinking on release.
NV Alfred Gratien • Brut
Rating 88 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2028
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 24th Sep 2021
Source September 2021 Week 4, The Wine Advocate
The latest release of Gratien's NV Brut offers up aromas of pear, orange oil, white flowers and fresh bread. Medium-bodied, fleshy and charming, with a pillowy mousse and a pretty core of fruit, it's showing well.
2008 Bollinger • Extra-Brut R.D.
Rating 98+ points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2025 - 2045
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 10th Mar 2023
Source March 2023 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
When I was tasting Bollinger's brilliant Grande Année in this vintage, I was trying to imagine how good the 2008 Extra-Brut R. D. would be, as the style of the vintage seems almost perfectly adapted to this cuvée. Four years later, we have the answer, and the wine is brilliant. Disgorged in 2022, it's more reserved out of the gates than the dramatic Grande Année was on release, unwinding in the glass with notes of crisp orchard fruit, orange peel, freshly baked bread, subtle hints of fino sherry, wet stones and macadamia nut. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, with a deep core of fruit that's animated by racy acids and a refined pinpoint mousse, concluding with a bone-dry finish. Extremely harmonious and full of youthful energy, it's the finest R. D. of the decade and one that will richly reward a bit of additional age on cork. In style, the most obvious comparison is with the 1996, but the 2008 is more integrated and harmonious on release. These bottles were disgorged late last year with three grams per liter dosage.
正規輸入品です。
2015 Louis Roederer • Brut Vintage Rosé
Rating 94 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2031 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 24th Sep 2021
Source September 2021 Week 4, The Wine Advocate
The 2015 Brut Vintage Rosé is generous and demonstrative, bursting with aromas of peach, orange and pear mingled with hints of red berries, fresh bread and ginger. Full-bodied, layered and vinous, it's rich and enveloping, its textural attack segueing into an ample, fleshy core that's girdled by bright acids and enlivened by a pillowy mousse. Long and expansive, it's more generous and gourmand than its racier 2014 predecessor, but just as good.
2007 Billecart-Salmon • Brut Cuvée Nicolas François
Rating 96 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2041
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 1st Sep 2022
Source Issue 262 End of August 2022, The Wine Advocate
The 2007 Brut Cuvée Nicolas François continues to show beautifully, wafting from the glass with scents of sweet orchard fruit, citrus oil, clear honey, white flowers, buttery pastry and warm biscuits. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and incisive, with racy acids, a vibrant core of fruit and a pillowy, elegant profile, it concludes with a long, penetrating finish.
NV Henriot • Blanc de Blancs
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 1st Sep 2022
Source Issue 262 End of August 2022, The Wine Advocate
Rating 92p
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2037
Based on the 2015 vintage, the new release of Henriot's NV Blanc de Blancs bursts with expressive aromas of white peach, tangerine, sweet orchard fruit and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, pillowy and nicely concentrated, with tangy acids and a pearly mousse, this new disgorgement is showing particularly well.
ワインアドヴォケイト誌97pは見事です!
それも1万円(税別)以下というから必見です。
輸入元は、ジャパンインポートシステムです。
NV Robert Moncuit • Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Extra Brut Réserve Perpétuelle
Rating 97 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2020 - 2030
Reviewed by Stephan Reinhardt
Issue Date 23rd Apr 2021
Source April 2021 Week 3, The Wine Advocate
The citrus-golden NV Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Extra Brut Réserve Perpétuelle offers a fantastic nose with great purity, finesse, elegance and a beautiful mix of Chardonnay chalk, yeast and oxidation. Very intense but always pure and precise. Intense and lush on the palate but also pure, tight and mineral, with chalky finesse and great tension, this cuvée reveals some fascinating matured fruit and wine flavors. The finish is lush and generous but precise, finessed and elegant, leaving the tongue with great tension, grip and structure. A great wine indeed. Tasted in January 2019.