Kraig Meyer

9.2

Delicious expression of Sancerre, lightly acidic and great with harissa salmon — 3 months ago

Ian Hamel

9.2

2023/12/31 with steamed spiny lobster and karaage. Started very tight, with prominent and steely acidity. With air, gradually opened to reveal intense citrus and chalk. Definitely a sleek, tensed personality, but likely to get even better with time — 4 months ago

Gilles de Chambure

Master Sommelier & Educator

9.7

In mag by the glass a ( special re release by charlie Hours for Willis wine bar — 5 months ago

Ericsson

9.2

This is what I call on point Pinot. Cheers. — 9 months ago

Alex Jones

Marketing/Development Kunni/Westerly Wines

9.0

2015 base: 2019 disgorged. — 3 years ago

Aaron Rankin

9.2

Lemon kissed butterscotch. Rich butterscotch on the round palette. A drinker’s cali chard. — 3 years ago

David Lee

9.0

Dry, savory and vibrant. — 4 years ago

Scott E. Becker

9.3

[Tasted on January 13, 2024 at Home]

Sweet cedar on the nose. Blackberry and black cherry fruit, with vanilla, earth, graphite, cigar box and cinnamon. — 4 months ago

Laura Snider

9.0

A bit sour but very good — 5 months ago

Severn Goodwin

9.2

NV | Champagne
(100% Pinot Noir)
Marie Demets; Cuvée Rubis
Côte des Bar; Gyé-sur-Seine, France
(91-93; Drink 2024-30) — 6 months ago

Amanda Speier

9.4

Yes and yes. — 7 months ago

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! 🙏❤️ — 3 years ago

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Patrick Derdeyn

9.2

The darker side of Rivers Marie. Where all of the Occidental bottlings share red fruited characteristics this is more black fruits and fresh earth. The supporting acidity and the hours it still takes to open up give me hope that it should continue to develop in bottle. — 5 years ago

Roman Boudou

9.3

Day after, holding well for pn, 2016 — 4 months ago

Mark Rosse

9.3

Consistency my favorite of the Anthill’s wines — 4 months ago

Ron Siegel

9.3

Floral & polished showing red & dark fruit with notes of pepper, olive, meat, spice & violet — 5 months ago

Bryan Kesting

9.4

This is one Rivers Marie Pinot that benefits from time. Very enjoyable. — 6 months ago

Pamela Peterson

9.4

Fabulous and smooth — 2 years ago

Pourist

9.8

Light, floral, beautiful wine — 3 years ago

Nicole Schilling

9.4

Fruit throughout with notes of cinnamon — 4 years ago