Corbon Champagne Brut Blanc de Blanc Grand Cru Vintage
$75.00
Corbon Champagne Brut Blanc de Blanc Grand Cru Vintage
$75.00
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Blanc de Blanc, 2010
I absolutely LOVE this wine (falling in love with anything from 2010 is easy to do...both because it was an across-the-board ideal wine growing vintage AND my wedding anniversary with Allie). This wine and its barrel-fermented sibling, Les Bacchantes (click here), I think were stars-of-show at our recent popup supper. Showing so much depth and character at 11 years young, and yet, such charming freshness. Truly what, I think Agnès does best.
($65.)
Blanc de Blanc, 2007
And here, right(?), we see the transition. Sipping on the youngest of the library releases at 14 years of age had me relatively speechless last night. There are just 'those wines' like Chateau Musar in Lebanon, Olga Raffault's Chinon in the Loire, and Chateau d'Yquem in Sauternes that stupify us in the wine business...how can the majority of wines tucker out with a bit of cellared age when some of these bottlings can seem to comment as you sip, "a decade? I'm just getting started!"
($65.)
Blanc de Blanc, 1999
($125.)
Blanc de Blanc, 1997
If I were a winemaker, it's a vintage-bottilng like this 1997 that I would *show* at a grand tasting among the press, other winemakers, and critics. This 1997 struck a fanciful balance and, like the 2010 above, stands out as an example of what Agnès, simply, does best. Concentrated fruit, lemony acidity, deep savory deliciousness and a finish that lasts minutes.
($125.)
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Blanc de Blanc, 1992
Sold out. ($125.)
Blanc de Blanc, 1991
What a treat. Fresh from the cellar, this wine reflected a mature and deep base of earthy savory and beguiling complexity balancing with a shiny acidity and that deliciously French stone fruit that I just cherish in a wine like this...and, can you even imagine that the grapes for this bottle were harvested 30 years ago?!
($125.)
Blanc de Blanc, 1994
We did not taste this wine...but I was able to purchase the last two bottles from Jeffrey's cellar. I am excited to offer the small amount we have to you. The adventure never ends.
Blanc de Blanc, 1987
We did not taste this wine...but, I was able to purchase the last bottle from Jeffrey's cellar. To confess, I originally intended to offer this with our dinner when I understood there to be two bottles...I learned later that it had been miscounted at their warehouse and pouring out just the one bottle for our thirsty group seemed more torture than pleasure so she continues to rest in our cellar. What would you cook to go along with this a full 34 years after vintage?!
($150.)