Perhaps the Best Champagne in Our Book - Special Event (Birthday, Anniversary) Bubbly that Everyone Loves - Very Limited

 This stuff is stunning. Can you get more?"
"This is like Krug"
"This is like Bollinger RD"
"This is like Salon"
"This is as perfect a Champagne as I've ever had."

NV Perseval Farge Jean Baptiste Brut 1er Cru
 - Perseval Farge's Best and Rarest Wine
 - Krug-Like Blend of Old Vintages

Incredibly Rare
 - First Offer in 2 Years
 - 120 Cases. That's It!

Nose
 - Salon-Like Pure Decadent Richness 
 - Hints of Rich Fresh Caramel 
 - Dense But Light and Yeasty
 - Some Citrus Flower
 - Gorgeous Minerals
 - So Beautiful

Palate
 - Rich, So Juicy
 - Incredible Complexity
  -A "Holy Crap I Can't Believe This Wine"
 - Crazy Juxtaposition of Density, Freshness and Lightness

Finish 
 - So Long and Rich
 - The Finish Is a 10

I Don't Care Who You Are

- This Will Be One of the Best Wines You Drink All Year

One can forget things when one writes over 250 email offers a year. The emails and texts started coming rapidly a few years ago. Usually late at night and usually when the client had finished the bottle. The list above represents a few highlights.

I've had this wine with tons of industry people and they've all been blown away with mouths agape. Even my most jaded and picky palates (who I love) love this wine. The guy who hates everything loves this wine. I had a client like that at my former job and he called every Saturday to pretty much crap on every wine ever made. I entertained him with my blunt honest opinions and I always understood him. No one else would talk to the guy. And when he would buy, he bought from my boss, not me! Even he would like this wine. It's because it's undeniably great. The most jaded palate to the rank amateur palate to the Michelin *** palate and all the other palate types love this wine. 

I researched my notes and saw I gave it a 10 on Delectable and also that is was my Sparkling wine of the year 4 years ago. So what is the wine? It is the NV Perseval Farge Jean Baptiste Brut and it can be
had for $97.99 a bottle on a 3-pack. It is a blend 53% Chardonnay, 34%  Pinot Noir, 8% Meunier, 5 % Arbane+Petit Meslier+Fromenteau which are ancestral Champagne grapes. The vintage assemblage is 2013 : 28%, 2012 : 58%, 2011 : 10%, 2010 : 2%, That is some combo! 

The way this was described by Isabelle Perseval is perfect.

"The art of touching up like a painter is what comes to mind when discovering this cuvée. A long and carefully measured aging brings to this bottle an expression respectful of the wine and its natural identity."- Isabelle Perseval

The nose is class and complexity at the same time. Brioche, minerals, and so yeasty.  Gorgeous smoke and iodine aromas. Huge aroma with yeast and brioche just wafting from the glass. Stunning. Nutty, hint of oxidized.  Super detailed. Meyer lemon extract as well.  One of those noses that you can stand on your chair and have the glass on the table 5 feet below you and you can still smell it.

The Palate.  It has that aged youth thing that sometimes great Champagne has, yet it is still brilliantly youthful on the palate with the finest mousse I tasted during my time in Champagne. The finest mousse. What an electric palate this latest batch has as there is more young wine in it this time.  Complex and so, so fine. Refined and juicy with superb minerality and toastiness. Outrageous. So sappy and juicy. So finesse. It is so deep with so much deep fruit and a whiplash of citrus acidity. One of the juiciest Champagnes I've ever had. As I look back on my note, the wine almost rushed back onto my palate. The finesse and wonderful toasty/brioche quality backed by the terrific minerality that frames it all. The acid makes your face smile. It can't help it. There is power, concentration and so much sap. The balance is extraordinary. 

A finish that is long and beautifully elegant. It just dissipates on the palate but leaves something as well. Just such classy and sophisticated bubbles. Classy and sophisticated are descriptors that are kept almost exclusively when describing great Champagne. Of course there is real depth here. Real chewy depth and I think it is the best one I've had yet. It's so deep and caressing. Almost sensual. Truly a great great wine that has much more to reveal.

I am all about drinking Champagne on special occasions but also not pigeonholing it as a beverage for just special occasions. But this wine is that special. It will add so much to 

Please do not think of this as a $97.99 Champagne .  It would cost $175 or more through three tier and at that price, it is an absolute steal. 

NV Perseval Farge Jean Baptiste Brut 1er Cru - $99.99 

($293.97 3-Pack)