Guide VERON des Champagnes 2018
(around 19
euros per bottle)
Sober and elegant
bottle.
Aspect:
Golden and
crystal-clear.
Fine and dynamic
bubbles.
Delicate bead of foam.
Nose:
Sensual harmony of heady
fragrances, obtained by the long period between disgorgement and marketing
(disgorgement date shown on the back label).
Ode to the Chardonnay,
exclusive varietal, supported by a life-giving breath, iodized and mentholated,
precious alliance of aromas of citrus fruits, apple, apricot and grape
interlaced with fragrances of almond, hazelnut and white flowers.
Later, the Champagne
House reveals its fullness, obtained by 5 years of ageing of the bottles,
before disgorgement, with notes of honey and marzipan, coupled with a seductive
grilled touch.
Palate:
Splendid purity at the
opening, enhanced by the adjusted dosage, with only 2.5 g/L of sugar added at
disgorgement.
La tasty tension slowly
gives way to a silky suppleness, driven by the subtle minerality and especially
by the lively effervescence.
Finally, we find again
the citrus fruits already perceived at the nose, highlighted by a delicious
bitterness.
Remarkable length on the
palate.
With this Cuvée Extra
Brut Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, Olivier Bonville, œnologist and cellar master
of the Champagne House Franck Bonville, offers us a champagne with a good value
for money, brilliant interpretation of the Chardonnay, harvested by hand in
2009, in the terroir of Avize, Grand
Cru of the Côte des Blancs.
Ideal as an aperitif, or
to taste during a meal, with prawns, for example.
Settled in Avize, the
Champagne House Franck Bonville has been perpetuating the champenois tradition for four generations. A controlled œnology, in
the service of a vineyard of 15 hectares composed of 77 plots of Chardonnay in
the Grands Crus of Avize and Oger and cultivated in a continuing effort to
preserve the environment and to assure the maturity of the grapes, gives birth
each year to around 150,000 bottles of champagnes revealing the terroirs of the Côte des Blancs.
Champagne Franck Bonville
9 rue Pasteur
51 190 Avize
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 52
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