Champagne Bernard Gaucher Brut Réserve NV
Our love for the Côte des Bar knows no bounds. And our love for great bargains is unrelenting! Get both in this giant of a wine from Bernard Gaucher!

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Why We Love It...
Guillaume Gaucher, a third-generation vigneron, runs the day-to-day operations of Champagne Bernard Gaucher today. And though we’ve featured this once before, we’re simply thrilled to have a little restocking moment with you all. A little backstory to catch all you new folks up… Guillaume Gaucher had become disheartened by decades of the family’s grapes being sold to the massive, lower quality, and bulk-produced Champagne houses like most of their neighbors. Growing up working the land and growing the grapes – he just knew that the quality was there to make delicious Champagne. Eventually, he convinced his father to no longer sell the fruit, and become winemakers in their own right, instead. It was then and there that Champagne Bernard Gaucher was born.
Third-generation grape grower and first-generation recoltant-manipulant (grower producer), the family’s vineyards are in Aube, with separate plots near the villages of Arconville, Urville, and Ailleville, east of the city of Troyes. These plots are planted on the region’s famous Kimmeridgian soils, similar to those found in Chablis to the south. Like many of Champagne’s lesser-known villages, the quality of product can vary greatly among these vineyards, but with the right soil, thoughtful farming, and painstaking detail – top-notch wine can absolutely be the result!
Years later, this house is still vastly unknown, even in the hardest-core Bubbles Monster homes (yes, perhaps even yours!), but I’ve loved the wines from the first sip to now – and I have the greatest of hopes for their future. This is a delicate, fruity, and entirely pleasing wine that also hits all the geeky sweet spots. Creamy and pinot-noir-driven fruits with a wonderfully balanced acidity and just the right amount of frothy bubbles… toasty, zesty, and tingly, all in equal measure. The clay and limestone lend pinot the chance to fully ripen, without sacrificing that almost Chablisienne minerality and freshness. An uplifting jolt of some 10% chardonnay further delineates the wine’s mineral spark and helps this sing at a high frequency. Myriad stone fruits – like bright and crunchy yellow plums – plus croissant dough, golden apples, and a creamy, milky aroma that makes me think of rich condensed milk or fresh cream…it is so good! As I said, it simply hits all the sweet spots, especially at our price! Two years on the lees allows a nice amount of integration and development, and a Brut dosage of 10 grams per liter heightens the fruitiness of the pinot noir. Fun stuff that you’ll virtually never turn down – a glass or two, a bottle or two – this is one of those bottles that seemingly fits all situations. It’s primed to win you over...just make sure you get enough to stock up on the new bandwagon you’re joining! Bonne chance!
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