NV Marc Hébrart Brut Cuvée de Réserve 1er Cru
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The NV Champagne Cuvée De Reserve Brut displays a slightly deeper yellow straw hue and is composed of 84% Pinot Noir, with the rest being Chardonnay. It includes 45% from the 2022 vintage, 25% from 2021, and 30% reserve wine from 2016 through 2021. Made without oak in stainless steel, it offers a more expressive nose with notes of white peaches, grapefruit pith, powdery flowers, and raw almonds or hazelnuts. It’s rounded, inviting, and more versatile as an aperitif, with ripe fruit that continues seamlessly on the palate. It’s ripe and rounded, with a pillowy mousse and a clean finish. It will be best enjoyed in the near term, but it can also be stored in the cellar for a longer period without spoilage.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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Made with Chardonnay planted in the communes of Oiry and Chouilly (10%) and Marueil-sur-Aÿ for the rest, the NV Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru reveals a pure, delicate bouquet of white fruits, pear, herbs and spices. Medium to full-bodied, tense and pure, it's elegantly juicy and has bright acids and a long, ethereal finish. Based on the 2020 vintage, complemented with 2019 (10%) and 2018 (30%), it was disgorged with six grams per liter of dosage.
Disgorged in October 2019, the new release of Hébrart's NV Brut Cuvée de Réserve is showing nicely, exhibiting notes of crisp orchard fruit, fresh peach, orange oil and white flowers. Medium-bodied, fleshy and precise, with a pretty core of fruit that's framed by bright acids and complemented by a pillowy mousse, it would make for an immensely charming aperitif.
80% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay. Apples ahoy – plentiful fruit here, in a simple and fruity style with a sweet, sherbet-lemon candy finish. Easy, light, unchallenging. (RH)