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Champagne Goulin-Roualet Blanc de Noirs Origine Brut Premier Cru 2018 Wine - Last Bottle

Champagne Goulin-Roualet Blanc de Noirs Origine Brut Premier Cru 2018

From one of my favorite Champagne finds comes this awesome BdN of meunier that surprises at EVERY turn!

$79
$110

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Flavor Profile: Raspberries, cherries, blackberries, strawberries, blood orange, graphite, bay leaf, lavender, and baking spices
Time on Lees: 48 months
Dosage: 2.7 g/L
Score: TP98

Why We Love It...

When one of our best suppliers of off-the-radar, tiny, artisan producers throughout France gives us a call and wants to show us a new Champagne portfolio…our schedules magically clear out. One sip into the Goulin-Roualet line-up, and we knew: This was going to be a new favorite producer. With its simply astounding level of quality across the portfolio, this is a producer to stay abreast of – we certainly are! After the last time we shared this 98 POINT Premier Cru Brut, we couldn’t order another shipment fast enough! Without further ado – if you missed it last time – this might be the very best Grower Champagne you’ve never heard of…until today!

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we didn’t get nearly as much as we’d like. With a producer this tiny, it’s just how the cookie crumbles sometimes, so take note and make haste! This is 100% pinot meunier from a quaint father/daughter operation based in Sacy – a small Premier Cru village a couple miles south of Reims, contained within the northern reaches of the Montagne de Reims.

Today, Christophe Goulin and his daughter Marine work alongside one another in their small cellar (though Marine has essentially taken over on the winemaking side), with only a handful of barrels and some half-dozen stainless steel tanks, producing a robust portfolio of 11 different cuvees. Most of these never leave France, and we had to beg to get as much as we did on this second go-round. Only 132 cases ever made!

The fruit hails from a single parcel, the lieu-dit of “Le Mont-Benoit” in Villers-aux-Noeuds, just a few miles south of Reims. All of the pinot meunier is from the 2018 harvest, yet the quixotic combination of developed notes and unwavering freshness would have made one certain that a reserve cuvee of some serious complexity was blended in. That is not the case here, but nevertheless, the complexity remains. An amazingly harmonious wine, with good weight and supreme balance, and a completely entrancing texture. Aromas and flavors of raspberry and cherry, with blackberries, strawberries, blood orange, lavender, and bay leaf prance in first. It continues with sensations of graphite and baking spice – and somehow, the enhanced fruitiness of the pinot meunier never comes across as overtly fruity or sweet. It’s subtle, and mineral, and spicy, with a balanced attack and neverending finish. Really, really incredible is all I can say; now go and get as much as you possibly can! There will not be enough!

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Technical Details

Country: France
Region: Champagne
Appellation: Montagne de Reims
Varietal: Pinot Meunier
Alcohol: 12%
Production: 132
Pair it with: Duck confit with Oaxacan mole negra

About the Producer

Marriage of heart and land, Goulin-Roualet champagne results from the union of Mr. Goulin and Miss Roualet, as well as their respective family vineyards. The house is based on three generations of viticulture. The estate includes the three Champagne grape varieties for a greater diversity of our cuvées, mainly in the town of Sacy and the two surrounding villages as well as a plot at "Mont-Benoît" in Villers-aux-Nœuds. The mostly limestone subsoil, the harsh climate and the relief create specific combinations for each of our plots and give our champagne wines their typicality. They vinify and age their wines in vats and barrels to develop a more complex palette of aromas.

Champagne Goulin-Roualet Blanc de Noirs Origine Brut Premier Cru 2018

$79
$110

Retail

28

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