2015 CHAMPAGNE DELAVENNE GRAN BRAN MILLESIME “750ML”

2015 CHAMPAGNE DELAVENNE GRAN BRAN MILLESIME “750ML”

2015 CHAMPAGNE DELAVENNE GRAN BRAN MILLESIME “750ML” This is Delavenne’s flagship cuvée, only produced in exceptional years. It is 100% grand cru fruit, with only the best bunches used. It really doesn’t get much better than this.Only produced in exceptional harvest years and from the best vineyard parcels.  100% Grand Cru from vineyards in Bouzy. No malolactic fermentation, no cold flash pasteurization. Only patient, careful winemaking to preserve the purity, aromas and flavors of the Bouzy terroir.

Grower Champagnes: are the smart buy, insider wines of the region. They offer the biggest bang for your buck. Why buy Dom Perignon when you can get the same quality at less than half the price. The Big houses of Champagne (Pol Roger, Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger) purchase 80 to 90% of their juice from ‘growers’ all over the region. This has been going on for hundreds of years. Over time these ‘growers’ have seen their grapes go into bottling of the finest wines, tete de cuvee’s, of the big houses. They have seen the huge money these Champagnes and they have started bottling their own wines. These wines have been coined the Grower Champagnes. Now these are small family run wineries that do not have huge advertising budgets, with large Corporate debt attached from their brand names being sold and re-sold to large luxury good companies. They can therefore sell their wines at a hugely reduced price than the big boys.

Delavenne

The house is led by 4^th generation champagne producer Jean-Christophe and his wife Maelle. The husband and wife team are dedicated to quality, grand cru champagnes using grapes from their 9 hectare estate located in Bouzy and Cramant. These are tremendous value Grand Cru’s rivalling the finest I have tasted. True Artisanal wines, made with passion and tender loving care. They make a vintage 2015 Champagne called: Champagne Delavenne Gran Brut 2015 Millesime that is their flagship that is one of the finest Champagnes I have ever tasted. It tastes like Grand Cru White Burgundy that had time to develop complexity, soften out with incredible length that has had some tiny bubble added, petulance. This is a wow and after some 30 plus years doing this I do not get wowed very often. Treat yourself, very limited. Only going to a select few. Only 18 6pks available.