2012 Boizel - Joyau de France
Market price
Buying options
Tasting notes
60% Pinot Noir, 40% Chardonnay. Founded in Epernay in 1834. Joyau is a blend of four Côte des Blancs grands crus. Aged in wood, with 12 years on the lees. Disgorged May 2024. Dosage 4 g/l. Very subtle oak on the palate. Crisp, so youthful and fresh to taste. Balanced, restrained, pure. Expensive but delivers high quality. (AWH)
Critic scores
Jancis Robinson MW
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
More reviews and scores
Opens with a curl of smoked citrus, flaky pastry, pink grapefruit and toast. Plenty of character of a vintage Champagne as it gathers tertiary character, retaining a green apple kick of fresh acidity. 3g/l resisidual sugar, 10 years of ageing. Grapes from Premiers and Grands Crus villages of Mailly, Cumières, Chigny-les-Roses, Avize, Chouilly and Vertus. Florent Roques-Boizel director, 10% vinified in oak barrels. A complicated, slow-ripening vintage that finished well, and this has good ageing potential, although not quite at the heights of the exceptional 2008 Joyau.
Open and flamboyant with fabulous intensity and perfumes of flowers and light strawberries as well as sweet pastry. Medium body with bright acidity and fine phenolics. Super length. Pastry dough with some white pepper and sandalwood. March 2024 release. Drink or hold.
About the producer
Product details
White