Esther Garcia

9.2

Cherry, species, liquorice.
Soft, long finish. — 2 years ago

Heidi Kutcher

9.8

Served with mushrooms and hollandaise sauce, duck with savory fig sauce, cheese course, and pear tartan at La Cuisine Paris market tour class — 7 years ago

freespiritwine Wine

9.6

Best Procence rouge I had hands down! Went to tasting room and had "to buy to try". Worth the 38 euros. It a single varietal that will stump you. Not cinsault or mouved...what is it?! — 9 years ago

Doug Powers

9.6

Continuing my tour through the cellar of D'Andezon, this is just lovely mature Syrah, smoky, meaty, lovely! — 11 years ago

Vanessa

9.4

**If interested, I’ve posted more pics of this visit and trip on my Instagram account - check me out @sips_ensemble**

We also had the pleasure to visit Champagne Paul Bara, another family-owned and -managed winery with only 8 employees! 💪 💪

It is a small but high-quality operation, producing approximately 100,000 bottles per year made exclusively from the free run juice. ✨✨✨ Thanks to the likes of @kermitlynchwine , the U.S. is a major exporting market for this wine. 🙌🙌

Paul Bara’s wines are sustainably farmed on numerous vineyard plots located throughout Bouzy, a Grand Cru village within the Montagne de Reims region of Champagne. 🏔 🏔

Bouzy is known especially for its Pinot Noir-driven Champagnes and also for its still red wines, a specialty of the region, called Coteaux Champenois. 🍇🍇

Paul Bara uses mostly stainless steel vessels for its vinification, designed to accentuate the purity of the fruit. They also use subterranean concrete vessels for the Pinot Noir used in rosé blends and for the Coteaux Champenois (still reds). 🥂

On our tour it was fascinating to see bottles being disgorged, dosaged, corked, capped, and caged on a machine in seconds — these are some of the last stages of the Méthode Champenoise. 🤓

We also learned that Paul Bara is a member of the ‘Club Trésors de Champagne’ an association of 28 vignerons formed to promote quality wine growing and winemaking practices and to highlight the beauty of terroir, demonstrating the excellence achievable outside of the major houses whose names are globally renown such as Veuve Cliquot and Moët & Chandon. 👏

Our favorite wine of the tasting was the 2010 Brut Comtesse Marie de France 🇫🇷 made exclusively from Pinot Noir grapes 🍇 It had a richness and abundance of orchard fruit, including baked yellow apple, also toast, bread dough, yeast, and dried white blossom notes, still offering finesse and precision, retaining incredible vibrancy.

We are grateful for our visit to Paul Bara and we look forward to visiting again the future! 🙏❤️ — 3 years ago

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Mr Mac

9.0

Bae bought this and says "this is delicious". This is delicious ... And we plan to buy citizenship in Monaco ASAP. — 10 years ago

K J

9.0

Lemon honey grassy. Bike tour. — 3 years ago

Steve Anderson

9.1

Abe Schoener of Scholium Project is planning an urban winery in LA and gave a tour of the location he is trying to secure in an industrial area along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River. Fittingly, the area was a vineyard in the 1800’s. Will be a couple of years before this comes to fruition, but an interesting plan. This wine was consumed from Solo Cup, so the score may not be fair. A Merlot Sangiovese blend on the riper end of the spectrum, but the tannins have softened since the last time I had this. — 7 years ago

Mireille Grandpierre Maisière

9.2

Sec, robe pâle. Dans le respect des rosés du Plan de la Tour — 10 years ago