Winemaker Notes
A rich, vivacious Champagne, with toasted brioche and smoked walnut accents, this offers flavors of black cherry pâte de fruit, pickled ginger, and poached apricot on a lively bead. Shows fine minerally cut to the lingering finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is a very vibrant and flavorful Champagne with a dense and layered palate and intense fruit flavors. Vinous and fruity, yet tangy at the end. Nougat and light cooked-apple notes. Drink now or one for aging.
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Wine Enthusiast
One of the prestige cuvées from this producer, this bottling is the lighter, crisper and fresher. Its style and poise are balanced, with acidity and fruit working together to give both freshness and precision. The wine is lightly structured with a mineral texture. It is ready to drink.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2009 Brut Millésimé Amour de Deutz wafts from the glass with a pretty bouquet of ripe citrus oil, fresh peach, white flowers and subtle hints of warm biscuits. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, elegantly fleshy and fine-boned, with a generous core of fruit, racy acids and a nicely defined finish. It's quintessential Deutz.
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Wine Spectator
Creamy and elegant, with a lovely, mouthwatering juiciness to the well-knit acidity and a fine, chalk-tinged underpinning to the delicate flavors of nectarine, white cherry, spring blossom and candied pink grapefruit zest. Offers a fresh, lingering finish. Disgorged May 2018. Drink now through 2029.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
Associated with luxury, celebration, and romance, the region, Champagne, is home to the world’s most prized sparkling wine. In order to bear the label, ‘Champagne’, a sparkling wine must originate from this northeastern region of France—called Champagne—and adhere to strict quality standards. Made up of the three towns Reims, Épernay, and Aÿ, it was here that the traditional method of sparkling wine production was both invented and perfected, birthing a winemaking technique as well as a flavor profile that is now emulated worldwide.
Well-drained, limestone and chalky soil defines much of the region, which lend a mineral component to its wines. Champagne’s cold, continental climate promotes ample acidity in its grapes but weather differences from year to year can create significant variation between vintages. While vintage Champagnes are produced in exceptional years, non-vintage cuvées are produced annually from a blend of several years in order to produce Champagnes that maintain a consistent house style.
With nearly negligible exceptions, . These can be blended together or bottled as individual varietal Champagnes, depending on the final style of wine desired. Chardonnay, the only white variety, contributes freshness, elegance, lively acidity and notes of citrus, orchard fruit and white flowers. Pinot Noir and its relative Pinot Meunier, provide the backbone to many blends, adding structure, body and supple red fruit flavors. Wines with a large proportion of Pinot Meunier will be ready to drink earlier, while Pinot Noir contributes to longevity. Whether it is white or rosé, most Champagne is made from a blend of red and white grapes—and uniquely, rosé is often produce by blending together red and white wine. A Champagne made exclusively from Chardonnay will be labeled as ‘blanc de blancs,’ while ones comprised of only red grapes are called ‘blanc de noirs.’