FRANCK BONVILLE Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Champagne Franck Bonville NV
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
70% 2017, with 30% reserve wines (20% 2015). This fine dry Blanc de Blancs keeps all the airiness of the classic Cote des Blanc villages (it's made from Oger and Avize), while having a rounded mid-palate thanks to the ge...(read more)
L&SFRANCK BONVILLE Rosé Brut Grand Cru NV
Champagne France
12.5%
Rosé
Chardonnay.
This has the same base as the Blanc de Blancs, but with the addition of 8-10% of Pinot Noir which they buy from Paul Dethune in Ambonnay. It's made in the same spirit as Xavier Gonet's, and is light and airy and - as my...(read more)
L&SUNISSON Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Champagne Franck Bonville NV
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
Unisson - a name intended to convey a bringing-together of the estate's best parcels of old vines, of the vintage wines brought together in the blend, of the freshness of its Côte des Blancs chalky origins combined...(read more)
L&S2015 MILLÉSIME Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Champagne Franck Bonville
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
Chardonnay from Avize; disgorged July 2022; 6.7g/L dosage – all on back label; aged 75 months on lees; cork.
The generosity and power of the ripe 2015 season are translated in a rich blanc de blancs filled...(read more)
2015 EXTRA BRUT Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Champagne Franck Bonville
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
100% Chardonnay from Avize, Oger and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Stainless steel, 100% malo and six years sur lattes. Lemon pith and stone dust minerality from these characterful chalk vineyards of the southern end of the C&ocir...(read more)
L&S2016 PUR AVIZE Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Champagne Franck Bonville
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
From three plots in Avize. Pressed 23 September 2016. Tirage July 2017. Disgorged May 2023 after five years. Dosage 5.8 g/l. 2,000 bottles made.
Smells like New York cheesecake. Dense and very vinous – white-burgu...(read more)
2016 PUR MESNIL Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Le Mesnil Champagne Franck Bonville
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
Franck Bonville’s 2016 Pur Mesnil Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs is showing brilliantly, with aromas of crushed stones, orchard fruits, almonds, baked bread and pastry, followed by a medium to full-bodied, broad and rich pala...(read more)
Yohan Castaing, www.robertparker.com2016 PUR OGER Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Champagne Franck Bonville
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
With a brut dosage, the 2016 Pur Oger Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs offers up inviting aromas of butter, lemon oil, menthol, crisp orchard fruits and spring flowers, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping...(read more)
Yohan Castaing, www.robertparker.com2015 LES BELLES VOYES Blanc de Blancs Brut Grand Cru Oger Champagne Franck Bonville
Champagne France
12.5%
White
Chardonnay.
100% Chardonnay from a single 0.8-ha vineyard planted at the top of Oger, close to the border of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Their only cuvée vinified with any oak. Fermented in 55 oak barrels – each year they include fiv...(read more)
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