Description

Sparkling Wine: 2012 | Leclerc-Briant | Chateau d’Avize Blanc de Blancs Brut Zero

Smells fresh with lemon and soft floral scents. Delicate and refined, this is crips, sharp and piercing yet also layered and rich.

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Producer: Leclerc-Briant

Vintage: 2012

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12%

Varietal: Chardonnay

Country/Region: France, Champagne

Smells fresh with lemon and soft floral scents. Delicate and refined, this is crips, sharp and piercing yet also layered and rich. Bitter lemon rind mixes with honeyed orange and some pie crust savoury elements to give real character. A little bit woody still, just peeking out, in contrast to the fruit, still showing its youthfulness. After a few minutes all the flavours seem much brighter in the glass, more evocative and expressive. Thrillingly precise, dry and crisp.

Producer Information

Champagne Leclerc Briant is an American-owned Champagne producer based in the town of pernay, in the heart of the Champagne region and in the Valle de la Marne subregion. The house was initially established in the village of Cumires, just northwest of pernay in 1872 by Lucien Leclerc. The business moved into pernay in 1955, at around the same time company moved from straighforward Champagne producer to that of a ngoce (buying-in grapes and wines for production). The name change to Leclerc Briant also dates back to this time with then-proprietor Bertrand Leclerc (the third generation at the helm since 1872) marrying Jacqueline Briant. The house was acquired in 2012 by private-equity billionaire (and former Domino’s pizza CEO) Mark Nunnelly and his wife Denise Dupr, a former Harvard Adjunct Faculty Member and board member of Boston University. Leclerc Briant is run by CEO Frdric Zeimett. As well as working with a range of growers across the region, the estate also boasts a tiny plot of vines in central pernay, dubbed “La Croisette”. Grapes from this vineyard are made into a single vineyard label. In all, the house produces three main ranges: the “Classiques” (Rserve Brut, Ros Extra Brut, Millsime Extra Brut, Ros de Saigne Extra Brut and Blanc de Blancs); the Single Vineyard range (which can vary but often includes Premier and Grand Cru fruit as well as the La Croisette label); and the “Spcialits (a range of cuves and special-release wines).