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Champagne Leclerc Briant, Réserve, Brut

  • White
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Pinot Noir (40%),Chardonnay (40%),Pinot Meunier (20%)
Ready - mature
Jeb Dunnuck
92/100
Jancis Robinson MW
16.5+/20
90/100
Product: 10001680201
Champagne Leclerc Briant, Réserve, Brut

Description

Leclerc Briant are one of Champagne’s most innovative producers. Organic and biodynamic, they are trailblazers through and through. Their Leclerc Briant Réserve Brut is a blend of 40% Pinot Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier and 20% Chardonnay, selected from Premier and Grand Cru villages. It has delicious notes of citrus, green apple, apricot and almond, with a hint of salinity. There is no better place to enjoy it than in the garden, one bottle around the barbecue and another to share under a starry night sky.

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Davy Zyw, Senior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Maturity Ready - mature
Grape List Pinot Noir (40%),Chardonnay (40%),Pinot Meunier (20%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Champagne Leclerc Briant

Critics reviews

Jeb Dunnuck 92/100
Disgorged March of 2023. 4.5 grams per litre dosage.Pouring a bright pale yellow hue, the NV Champagne Reserve Brut is from 2019, with 40% each Pinot Noir and Meunier and 20% Chardonnay. It opens to reveal notes of wet asphalt, ripe white peach, and fresh redcurrant. Medium-bodied and approachable, it has a rounded mid-palate, a chalky and pithy texture with a lively yet fine mousse, and a light note of brûléed grapefruit rind on the finish. It’s an attractive and balanced wine with a clean finish. Drink 2023 - 2030jeb_dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (November 2023)
Drink 2023 - 2030
Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com (Nov 2023)
Jancis Robinson MW 16.5+/20
40% Pinot Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier, 20% Chardonnay, from organic and biodynamic vineyards. Apparently, this is actually Extra Brut, though labelled Brut.Really quite mature nose with a suggestion of wildflowers (the biodynamic effect?). No shortage of acidity! The palate seems more youthful than the nose.Drink 2023 - 2026jancis_robinson_mw MW, JancisRobinson.com (June 2022)
Drink 2023 - 2030
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Jun 2022)
90/100
Firm and focused, with a lively bead carrying an aromatic range of almond financier, crushed blackberry, chalk and fresh ginger. Offers a lip-smacking, citrusy finish. –AN Wine Spectator (Autumn 2015)
Drink 2023 - 2030
WineSpectator.com (Sep 2015)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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