- If You Have Any 2008 or 2010/2012, PLEASE Try Some
- On a Par with Very Good $100+ Champagnes
- This Wine Has It All
- Lovely Yeasty Complex Nose
- So Elegant
- Dense Palate with Good Fruit, Mineral, Rich and Delicious
- Acid Balance and Structure to Age
- Terrifically Elegant
- There Is No Better Under $50 Champagne Value - Maybe Under $75
- Terrific Vintage for Champagne
- 2012 is 17.0 Jancis Robinson / 2013 MUCH Better Vintage (High Ripeness/Higher Acidity)
- CASE PRICING - $47.99
NV Brice Rose Brut Champagne
- Nose: Gorgeous Fresh Strawberries, Yeast
- Great Intensity and Purity
- Lovely Yeasty Complex Nose
- So Elegant
- Dense Palate with Good Fruit, Mineral, Rich and Delicious
- Acid Balance and Structure to Age
- Terrifically Elegant
- There Is No Better Under $50 Champagne Value - Maybe Under $75
- Terrific Vintage for Champagne
- 2012 is 17.0 Jancis Robinson / 2013 MUCH Better Vintage (High Ripeness/Higher Acidity)
- CASE PRICING - $47.99
NV Brice Rose Brut Champagne
- Nose: Gorgeous Fresh Strawberries, Yeast
- Great Intensity and Purity
- A Wealth of Material
- Terrific Concentration
- Red Ferry Fruit on the Palate
- Terrific Concentration
- Red Ferry Fruit on the Palate
- Very Pronounced
- Super Clean and Juicy
- Savory Finish, Very Nice Length
- Stunning Under $40 Rose Value
- Super Clean and Juicy
- Savory Finish, Very Nice Length
- Stunning Under $40 Rose Value
- CASE PRICING - $36.99
you are going to see a Puccini opera, you know that you are going to have a great night. And it's not just the operas as a whole. It's the individual arias. Many composers will phone in an aria or 2 here and there. Not Puccini. There is a consistently high level of quality that is remarkably impressive.
The 2013 Vintage
The Wines
This is the 4th vintage I'm selling of this wine. For me, it has everything I want in a Champagne: finesse, complexity, richness, fruit and finish. At the high end of Champagne, you have your geek Champagnes that the Champagne geeks love. Complex. Almost brooding but often austere and rarely delicious. Then you have the more approachable Champagnes that are delicious and forward with lovely fruit and the classic Champagne acidity, but they can be less interesting. There are very few Champagnes that have the stuff to appeal to both worlds; this is one of them. It has the huge acidity to match the dosage.
I'm thrilled to be selling the 2013 Brice Bouzy Brut Champagne Grand Cru, which can be had for $49.99 on a 4-pack and $47.99 on a 12 bottle case. That is value you can only get at Fass Selections. Brice's style is as elegant and energetic as it gets in Champagne. This wine is at the same qualitative level as its stylistic cousin Pommery Cuvée Louise ($100-150 at traditional retail). It has an incredible level of finesse and sophistication. There is density, sap and incredible concentration all wrapped in the most elegant, energetic package you can believe.
First, the nose. The nose is so complex you basically need slo-mo technology to fully appreciate it. There is so much going on, the brain cannot fully process it. Intense and powerful aromas of red fruits and compote. Honestly, I can't even describe everything that is going on. I was swirling and sniffing it for 15 minutes before I even tasted it.
The palate has a sharp beginning with a delicious juiciness that makes you shake your head; there is stunning balance. Again, there is a lot going on. It has a level of across the board palate impact as great Grand Cru Burgundy or top Grosses Gewachs with waves of fruit, acidity and minerality that just hit the palate like repeating shock waves after an explosion. There is superb structure. A salty, saline, biscuits mineral goodness just envelops the 2013. It has absolutely some of the finest mousse out there. It's not DP/Krug mousse, but the level below which is super impressive for a vintage Champagne for under $50 (it would be $80-$100 3 tier). The fruit is there but more of a suggestion but the tart tangy cherries bring to mind wonderful Beaune reds. The mineral expression of Bouzy fruit is just remarkable and Jean-Rene captures it perfectly in the 2013. The concentration is very impressive. The complexity is just spectacular if that is what you are after, but besides being complex, which is appealing in a cerebral way, it is also just ridiculously delicious because of the soft mousse and exquisite balance. After it airs the nose has just a mineral blast that is right in my wheelhouse. Umami for days. And the length. It has the cling that truly great wines have. It becomes a part of your palate but in an ethereal way. It has the structure for 10-15 years evolution in the bottle.
The long, sappy finish lingers for about 30 seconds with complexity that vanishes like a sunset. OK, I'm waxing poetic but I absolutely love this wine. It has the length of Grand Cru Chablis which is what comes to mind most when drinking the 2013.
This is a Champagne to sit and contemplate like a great bottle of Burgundy. It is 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay.
If you normally spend $80-$120 and up on Champagne, buy as much of this as you can and drink it once a month. Serve it at parties. If you splurge once a year on a great bottle, this should be it. It will give you an entree into the normally unaffordable world of top tier Champagne.
I'm thrilled to be selling the 2013 Brice Bouzy Brut Champagne Grand Cru, which can be had for $49.99 on a 4-pack and $47.99 on a 12 bottle case. That is value you can only get at Fass Selections. Brice's style is as elegant and energetic as it gets in Champagne. This wine is at the same qualitative level as its stylistic cousin Pommery Cuvée Louise ($100-150 at traditional retail). It has an incredible level of finesse and sophistication. There is density, sap and incredible concentration all wrapped in the most elegant, energetic package you can believe.
First, the nose. The nose is so complex you basically need slo-mo technology to fully appreciate it. There is so much going on, the brain cannot fully process it. Intense and powerful aromas of red fruits and compote. Honestly, I can't even describe everything that is going on. I was swirling and sniffing it for 15 minutes before I even tasted it.
The palate has a sharp beginning with a delicious juiciness that makes you shake your head; there is stunning balance. Again, there is a lot going on. It has a level of across the board palate impact as great Grand Cru Burgundy or top Grosses Gewachs with waves of fruit, acidity and minerality that just hit the palate like repeating shock waves after an explosion. There is superb structure. A salty, saline, biscuits mineral goodness just envelops the 2013. It has absolutely some of the finest mousse out there. It's not DP/Krug mousse, but the level below which is super impressive for a vintage Champagne for under $50 (it would be $80-$100 3 tier). The fruit is there but more of a suggestion but the tart tangy cherries bring to mind wonderful Beaune reds. The mineral expression of Bouzy fruit is just remarkable and Jean-Rene captures it perfectly in the 2013. The concentration is very impressive. The complexity is just spectacular if that is what you are after, but besides being complex, which is appealing in a cerebral way, it is also just ridiculously delicious because of the soft mousse and exquisite balance. After it airs the nose has just a mineral blast that is right in my wheelhouse. Umami for days. And the length. It has the cling that truly great wines have. It becomes a part of your palate but in an ethereal way. It has the structure for 10-15 years evolution in the bottle.
The long, sappy finish lingers for about 30 seconds with complexity that vanishes like a sunset. OK, I'm waxing poetic but I absolutely love this wine. It has the length of Grand Cru Chablis which is what comes to mind most when drinking the 2013.
This is a Champagne to sit and contemplate like a great bottle of Burgundy. It is 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay.
If you normally spend $80-$120 and up on Champagne, buy as much of this as you can and drink it once a month. Serve it at parties. If you splurge once a year on a great bottle, this should be it. It will give you an entree into the normally unaffordable world of top tier Champagne.
I am giddy and thrilled to offer the NV Brice Heritage Rose Brut for as little as $37.99 per bottle on a 4-pack and $36.99 on a 12 bottle case. One thing I often grab for which I never have enough of is high quality rose Champagne. The problem is that good rose champagne usually starts off at $50+ and only goes up. That is because they are much rarer and making rose Champagne is not a walk in the park; it's a labor intensive process depending how you go about it. It is very hard finding quality rose champagne under $50 in the market but $37.99 on 4 bottles??? That is unheard of. But with my model, I can do that today.
The nose on this is sexy and so gorgeous. Some fresh strawberry. Minerals. Some yeast. Just intoxicating.
On the palate, there are tremendous whopping amounts of minerality all wrapped around in sappy Pinot Noir fruit with great intensity and purity. Some red berry fruit. Strawberry, a hint of raspberry. So much sap. So fresh and juicy. Very clean and linear. There is a wealth of material here and terrific concentration while all the while coming across as very, very complex. That is the one constant that runs through all of Brice's Champagnes is that they have a terrific complexity. The finish is super long and finished eventually very savory.
The nose on this is sexy and so gorgeous. Some fresh strawberry. Minerals. Some yeast. Just intoxicating.
On the palate, there are tremendous whopping amounts of minerality all wrapped around in sappy Pinot Noir fruit with great intensity and purity. Some red berry fruit. Strawberry, a hint of raspberry. So much sap. So fresh and juicy. Very clean and linear. There is a wealth of material here and terrific concentration while all the while coming across as very, very complex. That is the one constant that runs through all of Brice's Champagnes is that they have a terrific complexity. The finish is super long and finished eventually very savory.
This is firmly in the Fass 4-3-1 plan. Buy 4, cellar 3 and drink 1. It is that good. But many of you will not be able to keep your hands off it is so drinkable and great. It offers a stark contrast to the rich and fruity Marie Demets rose. This is a pale salmon color which for me is always a treat for rose Champagne as that tells me it will be more on the savory/mineral side, which is what I prefer and I have a feeling a vast number of my clients prefer. This is terrific and my favorite of Brice's basic level of quality. It is exceptionally pure. Oh so pure. What this has at this price point is what makes it special. Which is a specific type of sophistication that you can only get from some Champagne.
The Winery
The Winery
The family that runs Champagne Brice has been in Bouzy since the 17th century. Their wines are made from grapes grown in incredible terroir including including vineyeards in Aÿ, Bouzy, Cramant, and Verzenay. Bouzy is a Grand Cru Pinot Noir village. In Champagne they will classify a whole village as Grand Cru or 1er Cru versus Burgundy as in Burgundy where they have classifications within the village. Brice, for me, is a terrific producer. I like every single one of their Champagnes. They are using only Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and block the malo, which, Mr. Brice explained to me ensures that the wines have utmost finesse. He is right and then some. This estate and its wines across the board have ridiculous finesse. I'm very proud to be working with them.
2013 Brice Champagne Grand Cru Bouzy - $51.99
($199.96 4-Pack, $575.88 12 bottle Case)
NV Brice Heritage Rose Brut - $39.99
($151.96 4-Pack, $443.88 12 bottle Case)
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