{"id":35961,"date":"2024-06-26T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35961"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:26:12","slug":"champagne-spotlight-franck-bonville-avize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/06\/champagne-spotlight-franck-bonville-avize\/","title":{"rendered":"Champagne Spotlight | Franck Bonville, Avize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid lightgrey; height: 1px; max-width: 150px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35967\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Frank-Bonville-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Franck Bonville harvest\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Frank-Bonville-1.jpeg?format=webp&amp;quality=95&amp;bg=ffffff 600w, https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Frank-Bonville-1-300x200.jpeg?format=webp&amp;quality=95&amp;bg=ffffff 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the final day of our visits surrounding the annual Printemps des Champagnes jamboree last year, we stopped in Avize to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine-producer\/Champagne-Franck-Bonville-2653-04.html\">Champagne Franck Bonville<\/a>, one the newer signings in our 17-producer-strong Grower Champagne selection, where we were welcomed warmly by Ferdinand Ruelle-Dudel, Olivier Bonville&#8217;s son-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>As so often on these visits, it is the touch of the first wine on your palate which lets you know whether you are on to a winner. In this case it was the the entry-level Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru which showed the way into the house style, a combination of the breezy energy and precision of Chardonnay from the Grand Cru chalk vineyards, with generosity and autolytic complexity.<\/p>\n<p>Unisson, the second wine in the line-up, is Bonville\u2019s premium non-vintage Blanc de Blancs, again all Grand Cru Chardonnay, from the best plots and older vines. As the name suggests, this cuv\u00e9e is designed to bring this combination of terroir transparency and winemaking skill to its fullest expression, an intensifying of the generosity which comes in part from full malolactic fermentation which helps to fatten the palate, and from long ageing on the lees in bottle which develops the flavours of baking and brioche. This cuv\u00e9e, which they describe as emblematic of the domaine, represents a distinct step up, even after the deliciousness of the Blanc de Blancs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35966\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Franck-bonville-tasting-line-up-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Franck Bonville tasting line up\" width=\"450\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Franck-bonville-tasting-line-up-1.jpeg?format=webp&amp;quality=95&amp;bg=ffffff 600w, https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Franck-bonville-tasting-line-up-1-300x142.jpeg?format=webp&amp;quality=95&amp;bg=ffffff 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid lightgrey; height: 1px; max-width: 150px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35963 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UNISSON-Blanc-de-Blancs-Brut-Grand-Cru-Champagne-Franck-Bonville-NV.240x700.28998-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UNISSON-Blanc-de-Blancs-Brut-Grand-Cru-Champagne-Franck-Bonville-NV.240x700.28998-1.png?format=webp&amp;quality=95&amp;bg=ffffff 156w, https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/UNISSON-Blanc-de-Blancs-Brut-Grand-Cru-Champagne-Franck-Bonville-NV.240x700.28998-1-92x300.png?format=webp&amp;quality=95&amp;bg=ffffff 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/>UNISSON Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru<br \/>\nChampagne Franck Bonville NV<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">France, Champagne<br \/>\nChardonnay | 12.5%<br \/>\nGrand Cru<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;Lemon pie, apple pie. But then marvellous acidity. Like a thousand tiny, tiny cuboids in the mouth. Baked apple, golden fresh apple skin, touch of papaya and papaya seed, crunchy pear. There is both complexity and charm in this full-bodied but well-defined wine, finishing on a note of floral spice.<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Drinking range: 2023 &#8211; 2028<br \/>\n17 | Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a349.95 single bottle<br \/>\n\u00a345.95 in a full or mixed case of 6<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/UNISSON-Blanc-de-Blancs-Brut-Grand-Cru-Champagne-Franck-Bonville-NV-46943-00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22563\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Order-here-large-button.png\" alt=\"Order Here\" width=\"138\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Champagne market in Charles Lea&#8217;s post: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/champagne-the-jigsaw-of-the-market\/\">&#8216;Champagne: the jigsaw of the market<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the final day of our visits surrounding the annual Printemps des Champagnes jamboree last year, we stopped in Avize to visit Champagne Franck Bonville, one the newer signings in our 17-producer-strong Grower Champagne selection, where we were welcomed warmly by Ferdinand Ruelle-Dudel, Olivier Bonville&#8217;s son-in-law. 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