RING IN THE NEW YEAR IN STYLE!
Get the party started and celebrate the New Year with a collection of our favorite Champagnes!
What's in the box?
NV Champagne R. Dumont Brut Nature
From: Aube, Champagne, France
Blend: Pinot Noir
Taste: This gorgeously expressive Brut Nature from R. Dumont shows off a bright, light rose gold hue with aromas of wildflowers, field strawberries, and clean linen. These notes evolve into freshly picked raspberries, ripe persimmon, and just-baked toasty croissants, underscored with a distinctive Chablis-esque oceanic minerality. The palate follows suit and rides on an intensely elegant structure that features fresh red berries, grapefruit, kumquat, mandarin orange, and Meyer lemon zest with a lingering finish of toasty pastry and a saline minerality. This champagne’s balance between fruit, acid, and structure is noteworthy and impressive, and we’re thrilled to share it with you!
NV Champagne Liebart-Regnier "Les Sols Bruns" Brut
From: Champagne, France
Varietals: 60% Pinot Meunier, 20% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay
Tasting Notes and Critical Acclaim: Predominantly Pinot Meunier and from the northwest of Epernay (following the Marne River), this charismatic bubbly shows off all the round, fragrant red fruit & a touch of hazelnut that this grape is known for having. The finish is toasty, uplifting, and fresh, with an engaging note of mandarin orange zest that lingers on the tongue. You'll want another glass before you know it, and this wine is a bottle of excellent champagne to enjoy if you’ve loved those pretty yellow labels but want to try something different.
NV Champagne Louis Nicaise Brut Reserve
From: Vallée de la Marne, Champagne, France
Varietals: 33% Chardonnay, 33% Pinot Noir, 33% Pinot Meunier
Tasting Notes: We've had the biggest crush on the wines from Champagne Louis Nicaise, and we're not alone! We've received great feedback about their wines from our Champagne Club members and have read lovely articles from other wine professionals about this small estate. To quote SommSelect, the Brut Reserve tastes like it incorporates "a fair amount of "perpetual reserve" wine, a blend of base wines from past vintages, typically held in one vessel (Champagne's streamlined version of a solera system, common in Sherry production). This technique, inspired by Selosse, sneaks in extra layers of complexity and texture."
The nose carries a lot of complexity with aromas of white fruits, citrus, dried fruit, white flowers, brioche, and dry honey. Please don't be fooled by this initial sentence. Though the fruit is present, the initial aromas from the glass lead to a bronzed, toasted hazelnut and baked confit lemon over brioche essence that blossoms into energetic fruit and a long, dry, saline finish that keeps on keeping on.
