Steve Ambrusko

9.0

Delicious berry with faintest hint of sweetness, but still gently robust. — 6 months ago

Valerie Finley

9.5

Lovely wine! Dark red fruit with medium body. Nice finish. We really enjoyed this in Collioure! — 3 years ago

Ely Cohn

9.2

Unassuming. Strict, quiet, barely there aromas of gunpowder, white flowers, blanched almonds. The pale hay colors suggest this is light and easy. It’s not.

It’s 14.5% - fatty oily, type A introvert of a wine.

Slightly hot, we get yellow peach, jasmine, almond. Drink this at cellar temp and drink slow, as she charges quick. — 5 years ago

Pablo Cetlinski

10

Buy a case or even two! — 5 years ago

Ming L

8.9

Vigorous with broad spectrum of flavors. Very fine mousse. Clean and delicate palate. From grand cru in Bouzy, with vines on average 35 year old. 80% PN and 20% Chard. Bought it on sale for less than $40.00. Will buy more. — 8 years ago

Ellen Clifford

9.2

Okay I’m a sparkling savant maybe I like simpler sparklers but DAMN I love the balance on this fool. If you need more maybe you should taste more and learn about nuance!
Ran into this in October at the San Francisco Wine Contest double gold tour. Took a bottle home to try when not already filled with samples...Holy hell F Champagne! I love CAVA. This is so balanced, so not obnoxiously overdone with brioche notes so...I have Spanish sparkling taste buds. Dry as f, with that whiff of...citrus/apple/pear/yeast/mineral lime everything? I LOVE CAVA! — 8 years ago

Michael Genn

9.6

Tasted at the end of the Taittinger cellar tour - incredible! The extended lees aging really comes through on the pallet, rich and a little buttery. Also sees 5% oak aging for two weeks — 9 years ago

JKT

9.1

Yup a new one to me and it’s well proportioned and lively on palate with well aged ripe fruits and earthy. Tasty! — 7 months ago

Vanessa

9.4

**If interested, I’ve posted more pics of this visit and trip on my Instagram account - check me out @sips_ensemble**

We also had the pleasure to visit Champagne Paul Bara, another family-owned and -managed winery with only 8 employees! 💪 💪

It is a small but high-quality operation, producing approximately 100,000 bottles per year made exclusively from the free run juice. ✨✨✨ Thanks to the likes of @kermitlynchwine , the U.S. is a major exporting market for this wine. 🙌🙌

Paul Bara’s wines are sustainably farmed on numerous vineyard plots located throughout Bouzy, a Grand Cru village within the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne. 🏔 🏔

Bouzy is known especially for its Pinot Noir-driven Champagnes and also for its still red wines, a specialty of the region, called Coteaux Champenois. 🍇🍇

Paul Bara uses mostly stainless steel vessels for its vinification, designed to accentuate the purity of the fruit. They also use subterranean concrete vessels for the Pinot Noir used in rosé blends and for the Coteaux Champenois (still reds). 🥂

On our tour it was fascinating to see bottles being disgorged, dosaged, corked, capped, and caged on a machine in seconds — these are some of the last stages of the Méthode Champenoise. 🤓

We also learned that Paul Bara is a member of the ‘Club Trésors de Champagne’ an association of 28 vignerons formed to promote quality wine growing and winemaking practices and to highlight the beauty of terroir, demonstrating the excellence achievable outside of the major houses whose names are globally renown such as Veuve Cliquot and Moët & Chandon. 👏

Our favorite wine of the tasting was the 2010 Brut Comtesse Marie de France 🇫🇷 made exclusively from Pinot Noir grapes 🍇 It had a richness and abundance of orchard fruit, including baked yellow apple, also toast, bread dough, yeast, and dried white blossom notes, still offering finesse and precision, retaining incredible vibrancy.

We are grateful for our visit to Paul Bara and we look forward to visiting again the future! 🙏❤️ — 5 years ago

with Deked1

Abigail Watts

9.3

Latitude birthday 2020. Lovely province rose, would definitely drink again and recommend. — 6 years ago

Tierney H

8.9

From champagne tour in epernay — 8 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

9.0

Third sparkling wine tasted at Champagne Henri Giraud. Thank you Mèlissa for the tour and all the information on your winemaking process.

Bright light yellow. Very fresh on the nose with some lavender, light green apples and citrus. High acidity (7.5/10) and medium plus weight. Fresh on the palate with some floral notes, citrus zest, and Granny Smith apples. Long and mouthwatering finish. Drink till 2025.

Aged for three years on the lees. 55% of the fruit comes from Äy and 45% from Montagne de Reims. — 9 years ago

with India

Sylvain Rhainds

9.3

Velouté et complet!!!
1975 — 9 years ago

Roger Ray

9.2

Merlo 80 pct blend with Cab & Petite Verdot. Superb bold red. — 2 years ago

Vanessa

9.1

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 🎄🥂

With brunch, we’re sipping a special bottle of bubbly from Champagne Hervieux-Dumez, a grower-producer located in Sacy, a Premier Cru Village in the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne.

We were fortunate to visit Hervieux-Dumez in the fall of 2021. We received a warm, welcoming tour of the property from Clément, who represents the fourth generation of this family business. We had the pleasure of tasting some incredible wines, including this one, which we brought home with us.

It's the ‘Cuvée des Rois de France’ – the ‘Cuvée of the Kings of France’ – named in recognition of Champagne’s history as the traditional site for the coronation of kings at the Basilica Notre-Dame in Reims. 👑 The village of Sacy played a special role in these events as a popular source of water.

This wine is a blend of Pinot Noir, Meunier, and Chardonnay, 50% of which came from reserve wines that aged a minimum of 60 months in the Hervieux-Dumez cellar. It is a medium lemon hue with a fine mousse and offers delicious notes of yellow apple, pear, white raspberry, lemon, blossom, wet stones, brioche, almond paste, and pie crust, with a lingering, elegant finish.

We are grateful for this beautiful experience that remains a beautiful memory. — 3 years ago

with Deked1

Alex

8.9

Interesting Merlot heavy blend. Age is nice and the price was relatively low for something 10 years old from Bordeaux. — 5 years ago

Robin Lennqvist

9.0

Doft: Syrliga äpplen, svag jäst, lätt blommig
Smak: gröna Syrliga äpplen, balanserad alkohol, lätta syror, avrundad jäst, druvor. Angenäm och balanserad — 7 years ago

Brett Johnson

9.4

Wonderfully dry and rich. A lovely example of a French dry rosé. — 8 years ago

with Tom

Michael Genn

9.7

Wow. I've never had a rose champagne like that. The subtle red fruit it gains from the Pinot is off the charts. Awesome to have this side by side with the blanc de blanc after the cave tour at Taittinger — 9 years ago

Robert Weyers

9.0

I like this — 9 years ago