Sam Wood

9.3

Beautiful reduction and oak balance — 10 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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Scott Kahn

9.2

A beautiful expression of fruit that exudes minerality and purity. Pears and clean gravel on the palette; the single best “Chardonnay” my wife has tasted!! — 5 years ago

C C

9.0

Light, dry, crisp — 6 years ago

Ted

9.3

Deeper colors and flavors. Wet freshly turned rich soil. Cherries that are not too ripe almost firm. Definitely some clove and after the wine warms a bit you get some sweeter cherry notes. Watching #glvc swim championships. Go Hounds!! — 6 years ago

with Jeni

Courtney Poldrugo

9.1

Silky tannins with bright acidity. Drinks like an elegant Pinot noir when comparing to any Pinot from U.S. Pairs great with gruyere and roasted chicken. It stands up to bold flavors in a dish. — 7 years ago

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

9.5

Paul Ariston must have used black magic to make this wine show so well out of half bottle! It almost teleported me to the Goutte d'Or in Brouillet! — 8 years ago

with Jim

Jason Kissane

9.2

Delicious! Just a hint of reduction, lovely weight and balanced acidity 😀 — 9 years ago

Timothy Eustis

Wine Director, Red Lion Inn

9.1

Just opened. Needs air. Fruit presenting well, with solid backbone. I do love me my burgundies! — 10 years ago

MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.0

Great value. 20€ in Spain. Very alive and bright — 3 years ago

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Ricardo Bohn Goncalves

9.4

Adi jun21 — 3 years ago

Michael Flynn

9.2

Outstanding — 4 years ago

Ben Ogle

9.3

Light, floral, very slight effervescence on first sip. Will buy again — 4 years ago

Keith Crump

9.1

Hawthorn and honeysuckle balanced — 5 years ago

Katie Carney

9.1

Luxe night in the countryside — 6 years ago

with Nat

Fricot

8.9

T'aimes tu la violette ? — 7 years ago

with Nicolas

Nick Azrack

9.4

Bright and rich. Pear and daisys. Wonderful — 8 years ago

Glen Hayley

9.1

Fleshy, juicy, bitter orange. Real good. — 8 years ago

Lars Covintree

9.5

Just opened this bottle of liquid candy. Such amazing, layered flavors. Take that @Ted Hughes — 9 years ago

with Angela

Stephen Becker

9.6

Cherries and minerals. Reminds me of my last visit to Provence. — 11 years ago

Ted Biser

9.0

Very dry with a strong finish. We had it with a medium rare leg of lamb and it paired perfectly. Ours was a 2019 vintage. Took a few minutes to open. Will enjoy again in the near future. — 3 years ago

Mike Obley

9.4

Very long, great depth — 3 years ago

Byron Hewett

9.2

The stone fruits here are a tad sweet, but tasty and easy to drink. — 3 years ago

Colin Cahoon

9.0

Bright red fruit, cedar, mint, tart cherry, currant, high acid and moderate tannins. — 4 years ago

Fricot

8.9

Apparemment c'est du chardonnay... Pas du gamay. — 6 years ago

Ted

9.6

This may be my favorite of the trio of Paul Pernot burgundies that I have been enjoying. Drinking so well right now for such a youngster. Th cinnamon jolly rancher just kicked in. Wow this is so good. — 6 years ago

with Jeni

J Levenson

9.3

Outstanding old vine Chablis that is "village" level but drinks like a premier cru. Decant for one hour. A SommSelect choice. $27. Wow. — 7 years ago

Chris Chiapparelli

9.5

You think that you know a wine, like PdC. Then you try something like this and it changes your whole perception of the genre. Serious juice. — 8 years ago

Glen Hayley

9.3

Ripping. Stalky raspberries and a juicy soft palate. So good. — 8 years ago

Amy Ray

9.3

Simply delicious! Get it if you come here. — 9 years ago