2008 Champagne, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

The 2008 Jadis Is Insane
 - There Is No Champagne Like This for $54.99
  - Grand Cru Levels of Aromatics, Density and Balance
 -   A Sensory Experience Like Almost Nothing I've Had
 - You Can Smell the Colors and Taste the Smells (Like Leary)
 - Amazing Young
 - Changed 40 Times in 30 Minutes
 - 6+ Pricing (It's THAT Good And The QPR Is Beyond Great)
 - A Wine You'll Want to Drink from Your Cellar for a Decade

NV Caillez-Lemaire Rose 
 - Nose is a Bunch of Fruits Laid Out on a Bed of Limestone
 - Very Complex, Unreal Depth
 - Unbelievable Wine for Under $38 - It Has It All

Today I am offering one of the best Champagnes I will ever sell for the quality and for the money. As many of you know I hold the 2008 vintage in reverence as it is incomprehensible to me how one can fit in that much fruit, acid, more acid, even more acid, some fruit, a side of acid, all on a bed of minerals. These are epic, epic wines that will age decades. The release has been a slow creep and more and more are coming.

Today I present the 2008 Caillez-Lemaire Cuvée Jadis for $57.99 a bottle on a 3-pack and

$54.99 on 6 bottles or more. I'm offering a special six bottle price because I think this wine merits it. It is amazing "young" and I can attest to that as I drank almost a whole bottle by myself. It changed almost 40 times in 30 minutes. It's that level of complexity which really isn't complexity as something complex needs to be stable and not changing over and over and over again. This is just packed. It unravels like the tail of a peacock. The wine is one of those wines that you can smell colors and taste smells. It's just on another level. I love all vintages of this wine but this stands tall above the 06 and 07. The nose is super complex like a spice bazaar. So much depth. Lots of minerals, some brioche that is so fine. Oh man is it fine. Then a whiff of candied citrus, lime zest, hazelnuts, iodine, white pepper and on and on and on. So much aroma. Wafting and it keeps revealing itself yet it also has so much more to reveal even as you think it can't reveal anymore. The wine is an enigma. But in a good way. It unravels like a tightly wound up poster you unravel for the first time. There is a vividness and crystalline quality to the aromas that comes only in top vintages. Champagne is so good when you can get something like this for $55 a bottle. I haven't even gotten to the taste yet. The nose should be bottled and sold at some boutique. It's just crazy. The first sip lets you know this is '08 and hear me roar. The best '08s explode in your mouth like nothing else. If you have 06 or 07 and 08 Jadis in front of you, like I did, if you can figure out by the nose, then the first sip of the '08 is the giveaway. It's explosive and dense yet also so light and elegant like only Champagne can be. It is just beautiful. Breathtaking. A work of art. It's rich, yet so complex, opulent, yet sizzling with acids that get at every nook and cranny, mineral like nothing else, but also there is clearly defined fruit. It is all there. This wine is just a knockout. It does not end. This wines finish doesn't finish, it just lingers. Only way to explain it. It cannot be missed. I'll be grabbing a case of this one.

It is 60% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir and 10% Pinot Meunièr. 100% fermentation in barrel gives it the richness. It is aged on its fine lees, which also contributes to the opulence. The grapes come from Cumieres and Hautvillers with no malolactic fermentation no filtration (on the lees) and alcoholic fermentation is in bottles with cork closures and not sealed with crown caps. This is a trend in Champagne as they believe it is qualitatively better. The dosage is 5.4 grams per liter.


I also have the briliant NV Caillez-Lemaire Rose for $37.99 a bottle on a 4-Pack.  This is only my second Caillez-Lemaire rose offer!  I've been too busy selling the other under $40 wines (which are so good it's ridiculous).  There is not much Rose one would want under $40. This is a screaming mimi of an exception. It's for unreal fruit but also that classic Caillez minerality. It's a large majority of Meunièr with Pinot Noir filling out the rest of the blend. It's also made in a small kind of solera style (not oxidized) in what they call "Reserve perpetualle" which means they don't bottle all of the blend each year. They keep some for the next year. Which I've never heard of for a NV Rose Brut before but also explains the unreal depth of this wine. Color is pink and orangey. Really stands out. The mousse is so delicate and refined. The nose is a bunch of fruits laid out on a bed of limestone. It's beautiful. It needs 35-50 minutes of aeration to become more aromatic. Clementine, citrus (mandarin, pink grapefruit), peach, pineapple and white raspberry. Also some almond notes after a while. Very complex. The wine has ridiculous fruit and depth. Exotic and ripe but combined with a limestone razor's edge. It's very finesse-driven, like the Brice, but more savory and feral with more exotic fruits. Fleshy and pulpy fruit that is so delicious. A wonderful citric acidity runs throughout. Terrific crunch.

2008 Caillez-Lemaire Cuvee Jadis - $59.99 

($173.97 3-pack, $329.94 6-Pack{$54.99!}) (LIMITED)

NV Caillez-Lemaire Brut Rose - $39.99 ($151.96 4-pack) (LIMITED)