Vanessa

9.0

Ca’del Bosco, Franciacorta, Cuvée Prestige, NV, Extra Brut, ABV 12.5%. 🇮🇹

Here is a blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Bianco, Pinot Nero varieties, with a dosage at disgorgement introducing only 1 gram of sugar per liter, making this an Extra Brut sparkling wine (6 g/l max), coming from Franciacorta DOCG in the Lombardy region of Italy. Franciacorta sparklers are known for being produced with a second fermentation in the bottle and prolonged aging on the “lees” á la Méthode Champenoise. 🍾🥂

This is a beautiful representation. It’s pale gold, bone-dry, and offers toasty, bready notes next to tart, youthful peach, pear, and apple, lemon pith, blanched almonds, desiccated white flower, and wet slate. 💕

This wine is bright, elegant, and focused. It could cut through butter and is a delicious pairing with creamy, soft cheeses.👌👌👌

Cheers! — 4 years ago

with Deked1

Andrew Fred

9.1

Bread dough, salty, mineral, subtle baking spices, good acidity, pear... unusual and delicious! — 6 years ago

Ed Chin

8.9

Tons of apple — 7 years ago

Bob Dylan

9.7

Dry floral funky so good — 8 years ago

Steven Gullo

9.3

Amazing focus and depth. Mineral, Pear, Golden Apple. Still quite primary and will last for many years to come. — 9 years ago

Andrew Lampasone

Owner Wine Watch Selections

9.5

This wine spends 9 years on the lees 70/30 Pinot noir and Chardonnay. This is all grand cru. A good amount of nutty a character with rich tree fruit. A big and rich wine with a good amount of pear and a host of nutty any yeasty character. Finish 50+. Most excellent+ — 11 years ago

Ryan Stewart

9.1

Pale straw color with delicate bubbles and a creamy mousse. Aromas of fresh dough, pippin apples, and faint notes of ocean spray. Additional flavors of brioche, apple tart, and lemon custard. Rich, long finish. The perfect wine to celebrate the 2014 Kobe Marathon! — 11 years ago

with Natalie

Joe Christenson

8.9

Very very light and diluted straw color. Lemon & honeysuckle on the nose. Palate is a bit heavier than I anticipated. Plenty of lemon citrus, white peach, nectarine, some green melon, underripe green pear, and some mineral notes. Tart, but lingers on the palate. I dislike using this word but it’s very quaffable, as they say 🙃. A crowd pleaser. — 5 years ago

Jessi Weingartner

10

Bone dry, extremely bright. Peach, melon, and apple — 6 years ago

Brian S

9.0

Baked yellow apple brûlée, wild strawberry, more lessy, a bit of funk. — 6 years ago

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9.3

Light yellow-gold. Fresh orchard and pit fruits on the deeply scented nose, with notes of musky rhubarb and smoky minerals emerging with air. Deeply pitched poached pear and nectarine flavors show impressive power and are lifted by notes of chalk and ginger. Packs a serious punch but manages to come off as elegant. Finishes very long, with a strong jolt of minerality and slow-building leesiness. (Josh Raynolds, Vinous, December 2013) — 7 years ago

Brian Reedy

9.5

Just sublime! Crisp apple and ripe pear. Honeysuckle and fresh warm bread. As beautiful and sophisticated as any classic vintage French champagne. The Davies family is producing world class sparkling wine. Well done! — 8 years ago

with Sarah

Sam Barber

9.4

Brioche, almond, biscuits, pear. Best $20 bubbles I've found — 10 years ago

Rafael Landestoy

9.2

Both Sauternes were beautiful with notes of green apple although this one was a little sweeter. Paired excellently with the biscotti. — 11 years ago

with Ilida

Bird Cox

9.8

Perfection. — 5 years ago

Erik Sjolund

9.8

Pretty much what I expect from aged champs on lees. Lots o autolysis, mushroom n some cellar. Little mineral n yellow apple. Not at peak yet still bery tasty. Didn’t win from a day in fridge... — 6 years ago

AJ Gubser

9.0

Lots of bright citrus and pomme fruit: lemon green apple, some underripe peach. Great acidity and minerality too. Clean, crisp, and delicious. — 6 years ago

with Scott

Ely Cohn

9.2

This is a natural wine I love. An OG natural wine from a very talented winemaker. A baby orange with the right amount of skin contact which complements the finished wine and doesn’t become the focus. I wouldn’t call this an orange wine. It’s a white wine enhanced with slight oxidation. Flavors of lemon custard and fermented apple cider. Splendid. — 7 years ago

Andrea Myers

9.6

Crisp and off-dry. A delicious blend of the three fruits which deliver a great balance. Subtle bubbles providing a little play for the tongue. — 9 years ago

Sean Lillibridge

9.5

This was a bit of a shocker. For $26 I expected some passable sparkling wine, on the order of J Cuvee 20. What we got was a gorgeous nose that leapt from the bottle with grilled pear. Creamy bubbles nearing what a fine champagne can do, a perfect, full but not syrupy mouth feel, and a finish that lasts about a minute, taking you on a tour of the grapes that went into the bottle. Stood up to bacon, mild cheddar, smoked Gouda and brie, and loved her bed goat cheese and manchego. This is damn good wine. — 9 years ago