Gruet Winery
Sauvage Low Dosage Sparkling Blanc de Blancs Chardonnay
New Mexico, USA
Sparkling, clear, pale gold in color; on the nose, it's clean with medium intensity primary aromas of yellow apple, and brioche; on the palate, it's dry with high acidity, light body, medium alcohol and medium intensity flavors of lemon, wet gravel, and white peach with a long finish. This wine is balanced, and complex. Overall, I rate this wine as very good. Nellie likes it too.
Sparkling, clear, pale gold in color; on the nose, it's clean with medium intensity primary aromas of yellow apple, and brioche; on the palate, it's dry with high acidity, light body, medium alcohol and medium intensity flavors of lemon, wet gravel, and white peach with a long finish. This wine is balanced, and complex. Overall, I rate this wine as very good. Nellie likes it too.
Jun 18th, 2026
NV. Sooo…introduced to me today during the FLB (Friday Lunch Bunch) bar sesh. A “connected” industry guy brought it. Open for approximately 20 minutes before I sampled. A BDB-styled bubbly without the broad, mid-palate, flatty Chardonnay swaths of BDB Champagne. More acidity and drinking closer to a grower Champagne Brut. Holeee cow. Put this in ANY blind NV Champagne flight and see where it rolls in. Too cheap chicken for me to throw on the list but will likely pick up two cases to keep off the list and keep exclusively for staff purchases. Better than any domestic bubbly I’ve had domestically-including Ultramarine. The price for me? $14.10 a bottle. Shut. The. Front. Door. Where is it from? Don’t laff. New Mexico. Yeah. The Land Of Enchantment. I. Was. Gobsmacked. Completely (and happily) shocked. 3.13.26.
NV. Sooo…introduced to me today during the FLB (Friday Lunch Bunch) bar sesh. A “connected” industry guy brought it. Open for approximately 20 minutes before I sampled. A BDB-styled bubbly without the broad, mid-palate, flatty Chardonnay swaths of BDB Champagne. More acidity and drinking closer to a grower Champagne Brut. Holeee cow. Put this in ANY blind NV Champagne flight and see where it rolls in. Too cheap chicken for me to throw on the list but will likely pick up two cases to keep off the list and keep exclusively for staff purchases. Better than any domestic bubbly I’ve had domestically-including Ultramarine. The price for me? $14.10 a bottle. Shut. The. Front. Door. Where is it from? Don’t laff. New Mexico. Yeah. The Land Of Enchantment. I. Was. Gobsmacked. Completely (and happily) shocked. 3.13.26.
Mar 13th, 2026