Dehours - Champagne Brut Grand Reserve NV
A View from the Cellar: 91 Points
The Grande Réserve bottling from Jérôme Dehours is currently from the base year of 2012 and spent three and a half years aging sur latte prior to disgorgement. The wine is a blend of sixty percent pinot meunier, thirty percent chardonnay and ten percent pinot noir. A quarter of the cuvée each year is taken from a reserve wine solera that Monsieur Dehours started in 1988, which gives the wine marvelous aromatic complexity right out of the blocks. The wine was finished with a dosage of six grams per liter in this year. The bouquet jumps from the glass in a refined blend of apple, warm biscuits, toasted almond, a beautiful base of soil tones, dried flowers and a bit of incipient smokiness in the upper register. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and still fairly youthful, with a good core, frothy mousse and impressive length and grip on the well-balanced and zesty finish. This could do with a year or two in the cellar to more fully blossom on the palate and should age very well indeed. A fine, fine Brut NV!
Price: $59.99
Sale Price: $51.99
