Cramant Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Champagne Chardonnay

94+, like Chablis with bubbles this is tense and deep, needs about an hour open to unfurl. Citrus, saline, chalk, white florals, pretty and linear.

Accessible and classic, this is a beautiful example of a Blanc des Blancs that while young you can drink now and enjoy the facets of a great Blanc de Blancs: energy, tension, citrus, green apple, chalk and minerality, good cut but generous. Will ade too. Silky fine bubbles.

Assemblage: 50% 2018 & 50% Reserve wine
Disgorgement: Summer 2021
Dosage: 3 g/l

70% 2016 & 30% 2014. Spring 2021 disgorgement.

2021 is seemingly turning into the year of Champagne for me and I gotta say, I could get used to this. Lilbert et Fils BdB GC NV comes in a rather unassuming package but more than makes up for it in substance. The nose is distinctive with aromas of slightly under ripe Taleggio and apples. On the palate, apples and citrus with lovely, persistent acid. Don’t sleep on this.

Refreshing, lively and light! A great sipper. 50% 2015 and 50% reserve. Disgorged 2019. Dosage 5g/L (extra brut). TBL

60% 2010 & 40% 2011, disgorged in “Summer 2015”.

Plush loveliness. Champagne. Cramant is the village not the method. So much classic brioche/lemon brightness but a lower pressure renders frigging a velvet bed? I don’t know. This wine is crazily wunderbar.

This is an awesome value, delicious Champagne! Has the intoxicating brioche aromatics while maintaining fresh, bright orchard fruit flavors and falls delicately on the palate

Good. Light. RIP JJH 💔