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! 🙏❤️ — 5 years ago

with Deked1

Sipping Fine Wine

8.9

A hand crafted blend of 50% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, and 20% Chardonnay. Golden straw with stone fruit aromas and yeasty notes. On the palate pear and apple flavors with a nutty toasty character. Well balanced on a long finish ending with chalky mineral tones. — 7 years ago

Johan Larsson

Owner/Sommelier tapasbar

9.3

Inte lik nån annan Albarino jag druckit. Krämig textur och ek som hade lett mig helt fel i en blindprovning. Stort vin med fantastisk karaktär från jästen och mogna gula stenfrukter. — 8 years ago

Yianni Stone

9.1

Watermelon character — 9 years ago

with Haley and Matt

Mo Salem

9.2

Decent Bordeaux... lots of vanilla, black fruit, and well integrated tannins. Not sure it will get any better - drink it now. — 9 years ago

George Chen

8.9

Inky protruded nose....at Cab & Slab so rest of the memories will be tainted! — 11 years ago

Olivier Delestre

9.1

Typical Pessac-Leognan taste — 11 years ago

Cara Almberg

9.9

I was first obsessed with the color. The over all mouth feel is amazing. It's almost overwhelming at how amazing it was. I wanted to empty the bottle but didn't it want the golden juice from running out. Obsessed. — 11 years ago

Cristina Behrens

9.2

Bright and smooth — 12 years ago

Diana Cohen

9.5

We had at Apicius , amazing , smooth a hint of oak but rounded and easy to drink — 5 years ago

Matthew Lajoie

10

2016. Shit year. Great wine. Easy smooth and sunny. The wife brought this beauty back from France (we live in Toronto) great great wine. — 7 years ago

Adam Nesto

8.9

Shoutout to the Sancerre queen @kbidness — 7 years ago

with Alex

Neil Shah

9.2

Is Albariño the greatest grape for white? Discuss. — 8 years ago

Aaron Means

9.0

Great value Bordeaux made by the Pichon Comtesse team! — 8 years ago

Manjiry Tamhane

9.2

Loved this champagne — 9 years ago

Weijie Shi (Jay)

8.9

Deep ruby, violet color, full bodied. Creme de cassis and tobacco dominant on the nose, with black cherry, blackberry, raspberry, liquorice, cedar box, mocha. Black chocolate, mocha, liquorice and black fruits on the palate. Bone dry, more grip than Reserve de la Comtesse 2012. Some green component, 30s+ finish. 13% alc. 2012 vintage — 10 years ago

with rainbow

Daniel Sherbert

9.1

Licorice, autumn apples, clean finish — 11 years ago

Anne A

9.5

Delicious. It was the aperitif at a fundraiser we recently hosted. — 11 years ago

Patrick Hu

9.1

Citrus, vanilla. Fabulous with sea bass. — 12 years ago

Andrew

9.4

Excellent white burgundy. Mineraly and smooth. — 6 years ago

Ow

9.5

100% galaxy, great flavor and richness — 6 years ago

Chris Gillespie

9.1

This sauv Blanc blend is out of sight esp for the price — 7 years ago

Ned Gray Creed

9.2

Monopole! That one wasn’t in my list. Chalk up another delicious Monopole tasted. The list is long and distinguished, and fun to chase down. The resolution continues almost 10 years later. 100 Wines Kermit tasting. — 7 years ago

Andrew Crane

9.3

Pear, some citrus and flint — 8 years ago

Casey Stringer

9.4

Fantastic white burg. Citrus, gardenia, and pistachios. Wish this was a mag. — 9 years ago

Nate Redner

9.5

Fresh and elegant. Honey, orange zest and hazlenut. — 10 years ago

Frej Helstrand

9.0

Brutal Trosseau — 11 years ago

Collin Moody

8.9

Among domestic Pinot and super Tuscans, this is a gem!!! — 11 years ago

Brendan Leary

9.0

Always above my expectations have a variety of blended yet conflicting flavor I like — 12 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Brilliant. 2012. — 12 years ago