Grand Cru, Vintage Rose Champagne - $49.99 Direct from the Estate Pricing - Should Be $80-$100 - "A Summer's Day"

 2013 Brice Grand Cru Bouzy Rose
 - Only 130 Cases Made
 - Stunning Vinosity - Like Drinking Great Burgundy
 - Extra Brut
 - Brilliant 2013 Vintage Is Finally Here
 - Nose: Big Brioche
 - Gorgeous Raspberry Flowers
 - Intense Mineral/ Yeasty Character
 - Almost Like Sparkling Barbaresco
 - Palate: Stunning Purity, Layered Depth
 - Sappy and Piquant Raspberry and Cherry Fruit
 - Terrific Palate Vivacity
 - Likely the Best Rose Champagne I've Sold
 - Should Be $80-$100 - $49.99 Direct from the Estate Pricing 
 - A Champagne to Sit and Contemplate Like Great Burgundy
 - Case Pricing

Don't Sleep on the Grand Cru BdB (Under $43!)
 - Incredible Density and Fruit
 - But Classic Brice Balance and Finesse
 - Nose: Smoke, Terrific Yeastiness and Citrus
 - Palate: Super Elegant and Complex, Terrific Sap

 - Very Rare to Find Grand Cru Bouzy BdB Under $60

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The Bard

I had a bottle of this the other night. This is going to sound a bit odd, but if one can be in love with a bottle of wine, then I am in love with this wine.  

It has everything I want in a wine.  Elegance. Class. Beauty. Intelligence.  

Yes, I can appreciate it intellectually. The complex aromatics. The spectacular elegant fruit on the palate. But this wine goes above that for me. I could drink this in the middle of a World War 1 battlefield and be happy. At peace. Just smiling no matter what was going on around me.

There are very few Champagnes that have the stuff to appeal to both the geek and the pleasure seeking crowds ... this is one of them. The 2011 and 2012 were epic but the 2013 is even more epic.

Wine #1

The 2013 Brice Grand Cru Bouzy Rose for $49.99 a bottle on a 4-pack and $47.99 on a 12 bottle case is one of the best vintage Champagne deals out there and for the rare category of vintage Rose Champagne is does not get better value wise. Just an absurd value. This 2013 Rose is the rose version of the famous 2008 Brice Grand Bouzy Grand Cru that everyone wishes they had more off. They only made 1,520 bottles, so this is extremely limited.  Possibly the most limited and exclusive Champagne we sell. But believe me, you want this wine. The wine is incredible and stunning and most importantly it is so, so vinous.  I adore vinous rose Champagne.

The nose offers up big brioche and some subtle yet vivid and precise hints of raspberry, raspberry flower and a lively intense mineral/yeasty character from the Chardonnay. Blood orange, sous bois and citrus. Also morello cherries. It smells insanely fresh and has admirable depth. Truly a sick nose but one does not only smell this wine. One must taste this wine. Oh man.

The palate is a force of sap and structure with stunning purity, krazor freshness and  layered depth. It is so lively, refreshing and has the most refinement of any vintage Brice wine we offer. But the drinkability
factor cannot be underestimated. This is so alive it is almost part of your consciousness Black Mirror style. The purity here is dazzling as is the sappy palate-staining length. So much sappy and piquant raspberry and cherry fruit. But boy are there minerals. This saps your palate and floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. The wine becomes a part of your palate as the minerality has almost a quarry-like impression on the palate such a lively and sharp feeling from the Chardonnay which cuts across the palate like knife. The acid is wonderful but never intrusive. The finesse and top notch quality easily make this the best Rose Champagne I have ever sold. It should be $80-$100 a bottle. I live for Vintage Grand Cru Rose Champagne but it usually very expensive as it is so rare. Think Dom Perignon Rose or Krug or Vouette & Sorbee and you start to get what I mean. For this price, there is no better Vintage Rose Champagne. It is a vinous gift. This is a Champagne to sit and contemplate like a great bottle of Burgundy.

Made from 85% Chardonnay and 15% Pinot Noir this wine has its malolactic fermentation blocked as that is the key to the finesse and elegance that Brice gets. It has 4gl of dosage and is classified as Extra Brut so this is amongst the driest offerings from Brice.

Wine #2

I'm also thrilled to offer a remarkable blanc de blancs from Brice. The NV (2015) Brice Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut Bouzy, which can be had for as little as $42.99 a bottle on a 4-pack.

Super clean nose. Some smoke, yeast and citrus. Very yeasty and mineral that is contrasted also by stark minerals and some hints of lemon and lime zest. Saline, iodine as well, wet rocks, and some toastiness. Beautiful perfume! The acidity in this wine frames the wealth of stark minerals and gorgeous fruit/mineral density.

On the palate there is sap for days like great Blancs de Blanc should be, but by no means sacrificing the super finesse-driven house style of Brice. Palate is rich and structured with lovely sap and purity and finished very mineral but also creamy. Palate is also super elegant and complex with wonderful purity, depth and freshness. Lovely mousse and cut. Terrific sap on the finish Terrific wine and what an epic finish. For what it's worth this wine is always better on day 2. Best Champagne to open if you're going to be alone for two nights in a row.

It is not often you can find a Grand Cru Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs from Bouzy, a predominantly Pinot Noir village for under $60, pretty rarer under $50, and at under $43 you'd have to call me Crazy Eddie. The Brice BDB falls firmly in the insane category. Weighing in at 4 grams p/l of RS (residual sugar) this wine has insane balancing acidity. I love acid and this is what gives it the insane Crazy Eddie moniker. This is gorgeous and is about as dry as Blancs de Blancs gets without being a severe screecher. This wine also needs a decant. I know but it really does. Some of these Brut nature BDBs I cannot wrap my head around to be honest and lack charm because of the lack of sugar. The 4 grams of sugar is perfect as it gives it slight body/texture to go along with the mineralic force. It is amazing how a wine can be so dense and yet so elegant and pretty at the same time. This needs a 2 hr decant minimum! The iron fist in a velvet glove strikes again. Stunning wine. And at $42.99 this is a terrific value. I think this will age beautifully for 10-15 years as the acid spine gives this a wonderful structure for medium term aging. Remember, through 3-tiers this is around $60 a bottle....and the quality is there for $60, yet only $39.99 from me. I am waiting impatiently for Brice to get here this Fall as I will be drinking an ocean of it.

2013 Brice Bouzy Grand Cru Rose - $51.99 

($211.96 4-pack, $575.88 12 bottle case {$47.99}) 

 

NV (2015) Brice Bouzy Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru - $44.99 ($171.96 4-pack)