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With le petit gres champenois and a good baguette. This Champagne is delicious. Smoke, toast, caramel apple, marzipan.. a little citrus. The attack is full, lush, and bready, but in the middle, the texture is ethereal and the flavors are nutty, fruity, and sweet even though the Champagne is quite dry.
Pierre Peters Brut
Reserve Grand Cru BDB NV
750ml, $66.99
Look closely on the next bottle of Champagne you purchase and the odds are that one will find a tiny little inscription of NM, somewhere on the label. This stands for Negociant manipulant (buyer/producer) and indicates that the producer of this Champagne uses purchased grapes to create their wine. While not inherently bad, it does indicate that their wine is produced in such great quantities that they just can’t source enough of the truly best grapes to merit a designation of Grand Cru or Premier Cru (indicators that the grapes came from the top villages in the region).
On many of the grower Champagnes we carry, also known as Farmer Fizz, one will see the inscription of RM, printed tediously small. This means Recoltant Manipulant (grower/producer). Not only can these companies source the best materials, they grow them in the best villages in Champagne as determined by French law after centuries of research into the area. So, a true artisanal product lovingly crafted from ground to glass from a top location often for less than the top producers charge for their base products. This is what I consider a true value!
So, the long and the short of it is get on in to your sparkle central and stock up on the good stuff:
Pierre Gimonnet et Fils Blanc de Blancs Cuis Premier Cru Brut is a Sparkling - Complex and Traditional style of Champagne produced in the Champagne region of France.
Wine Enthusiast: 92 Points - "Fresh apples and cream aromas with a tight citrus and mineral edge. The fruit is fresh but with the attractive ripeness of white currants. Very full in the mouth, very much a wine suggesting an ability to go with food."
Pierre Gimonnet 1er Cru Brut 750ml, $54.99
The Brut Premier Cru is a gorgeous wine, and a great introduction to the house style. Lemon, white flowers, mint, crushed rocks are some of the many notes that take shape in the glass as this refined Champagne shows off its impeccable class and total pedigree. Winery: "The nose offers fruity notes of white peach and raspberry. In the mouth, the roundness and flavor of Meunier coat a structure that remains firm and toned. Long, square, this is a wine with a strong personality."
Aubry Brut
750ml, $48.99
