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Adrien Renoir Champagne Grand Cru Le Terroir NV
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$57.94
Renoir's NV Extra-Brut Grand Cru Le Terroir is showing very well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of nashi pear,...
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Agrapart describes this as its 'entry-level' wine, but it's far from your normal non-vintage Champagne. A blend of...
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$70.12
Very pure and fragrant, with attractive aromas of bread and fresh hazelnuts, cashew nuts, light lemons and...
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$93.44
This has a very strong array of white stone-fruit aromas, ripe pears, lemons and grapefruit. The palate is...
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$199.81
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Andre Clouet Champagne Brut 1911 NV
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$81.78
The Un jour de 1911... is another 100% Bouzy Pinot Noir with an antique label design. The bright golden colored...
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$44.94
Pretty floral and spice notes waft through flavors of green melon and blanched almond in this well-cut Champagne....
750ml - Case of 6
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$584.61
A bright blanc de blancs, with a crisp and lacy mousse, this offers notes of crunchy pear, ground ginger and lemon...
750ml - Case of 6
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$238.23
This is a three-way assemblage: three grape varieties – and equal percentage of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay with 20%...
750ml - Case of 6
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$435.11
Bright medium pale orange salmon color. Bright, fruity aromas of peach-pineapple tart and spiced apples with a soft,...
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$64.83
Pale yellow. Orange zest, lemongrass, jasmine and chalky minerals on the perfumed nose, with a hint of white pepper...
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$64.95
This is a fruity and fresh rosé Champagne with strawberry and cherry flavors and fine and creamy bubbles that give...
Champagne Blend Melon de Bourgogne NV 750ml Pre-Arrival
The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.
Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.