Winemaker Notes
Ultra Brut is an exhilarating and rewarding food wine, pairing effortlessly with fresh oysters or langoustines.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Ripe nose of baked apples, pears, cooked lemons, grilled nuts and toast. It’s medium-to full-bodied with sharp acidity and soft bubbles. Rich and dense at the finish. Sustainable.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Opening to a crisp, fresh, linear focus, the 2016 Ultra Brut offers yellow apple skin and citrus blossom with hints of toasted biscuits and dusty Meyer lemon. Medium to full-bodied, the wine compresses slightly on the palate to show notes of sautéed Marcona almonds with a kiss of lemon oil and sea spray before ending with a fresh, lingering, mineral-driven finish. It’s a fantastic wine with depth and complexity that brings me back for more.
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.
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