Mark Eastom

9.0

Cherry skins, brioche and amazing acid. — 4 years ago

Matt

9.4

Powerful and dense, nicely juxtaposed by the racy chalkiness and snap of its acidity. Some post-disgorgement age has brought great balance and complexity. There’s ripe/baked apple, asian pear, orange peel, white strawberry, fresh dough, chalk, nutmeg, salt, some honey. Can clearly sense the 50/50 CH/PN and their respective terroirs. Kudos for purity given its low-to-no SO2 upbringing, which I find particularly hard to execute in Champagne. 5/2016 disgorgement. — 6 years ago

Michael Herzog

9.2

Wonderful ‘09 from Camille Saves. Just the right amount of dosage. Just now rating. Drank very well celebrating the final end to the election; not one way or the other as much as the end of the process... — 6 years ago

Matt

9.1

Unique expression of CH given location and vintage. This has power and ripeness to a degree, but is able to maintain its balance in acidity and dosage, never feeling top-heavy. “Les Mottelettes” 100 CH 1/2015 disgorgement 5g/l dosage — 6 years ago

Verena Souw

9.5

Fresh, crisp light rose. Perfect for a hot summer day! — 7 years ago

Dan Read

9.5

Lilly's birthday — 8 years ago

Icy Liu

9.1

Green apple, good ripeness but not too much. Very long finish with some toastiness. Excellent — 8 years ago

Zach Henderson

9.2

Strong straw flavors with a hint of berries. Great RM. — 10 years ago

Matt Leader

9.3

A legend in its own realm. — 11 years ago

web bond

8.9

Sweeter than expected. — 11 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

9.9

Rich Pinot from Bouzy- great with the hamachi!!! Old vine,single vineyard Champagne that doesn't forget to be delicious! — 13 years ago

with Cleora

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

Cheekypriscilla

10

Beautifully balanced. Would enjoy as a starter or with a burger and steak. So versatile. — 6 years ago

Jeremy Shanker

Sommelier at RN74

9.4

10/17 disgorgement. Perfect weeknight Champagne — 7 years ago

Severn G

9.2

Prior notes still apply, wonderful bottle!

Nose is lightly briney, fresh sage and peppercorn, cold yellow apple.
Palate has chalky red fruits, abundant red & yellow cherry, great acid and even better mineral texture.

I've found the Brice NV bottles all need a decant, yes decant Champagne, seriously. These bubbles are over the top, and only an extensive airing will bring you full enjoyment. The vintage bottles are good to go from the bottle, more restrained effervescence there. This was decanted for about 60m, but I did have the decanter in the refrigerator, I still have respect for service temperature. — 7 years ago

Nicola Morvillo

9.1

On 31/5/18 — 8 years ago

Peter C

9.4

So glad I loaded up. Just gets better and better. — 8 years ago

with Cher

John Riddick

8.9

Fine bubbles, good yeast action, light on the red fruits — 10 years ago

Alessandro DiMare

9.1

Well that's the first time i have had a still wine from champagne.
Bouzy Pinot. Sooooooo easy. — 11 years ago

Gil Kulers

9.8

Smack your momma good. A lot of finesse with lots of tart fruit, but just the right proportion of yeasty notes. Bubbleheads, buy this wine! — 12 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Love this style of wine. Nose jumps out at you with bright cherry fruit, spice, loads of minerals and lovely forest floor. Ripe and lurid. Soupy in the best way. Really airy, high toned and just so aromatic. Very impressed. Palate is sweet and succulent with very impressive tang and length. A haunting opulent and terrific texture adds to the allure. Fresh and juicy with terrific energy and purity. Long with superb powdery tannins. — 5 years ago

Ron Siegel

9.4

My 1st time with this producer. This was all about finesse & intensity with a very fine mousse showing notes of lemon citrus, mineral with a hint of green apple. Lovely stuff! — 6 years ago

Ryan Vento

9.1

Solid bubbles 🥂 Toasty notes laced in citrus 💫 — 6 years ago

with Krystal

Christina

9.1

Champagne Blanc de Noir, my faouvorite! — 7 years ago

Ted

9.2

Elegant. Dark cherry in color. Strawberries, ripe cherries, roses. Hardly showing any age and just a pleasure to drink — 7 years ago

with Jeni

Matthew Cohen

9.2

Nose needs 45 minutes to settle down. Nice fruit. Not at all severe for an extra brut. Good crunchy mineral finish. — 8 years ago

Charlie Evans

9.4

Ha, busting out the big guns at the end of the night. Magnum of 99 Vesselle, yea this was alright. — 9 years ago

Mackenzie

9.5

Cool ass field blend for u chumps!!! #chumpagnestudy — 10 years ago

Vincent Derquenne

9.2

2008
Beautiful, bright, sexy tannins, the wine has many years in front of him. And so do I!!! The orange confit is a little shy but the berries are doing their job!

— 11 years ago

Bailey Langner

10

Smooth, citrusy — 12 years ago