Champagne Vilmart Vintage Release Offer

This Spring sees the highly anticipated release of three vintage-specific Champagnes from Vilmart. All three cuvees are in very limited supply.

Over the last few years the Champagnes from Vilmart have become highly sought after throughout the world, these vintage releases frequently selling out upon on release.

Along with Laurent's two non vintage cuvees - Grande Reserve and Grand Cellier - we invite you to take advantage of this special offer.

It is worth noting that Vilmart's NV Grand Cellier was awarded 95 points along with Dom Perignon and Cristal in a recent Wine Spectator review.

New Vintage Releases 2009 Grand Cellier d'Or. Degorged 04/13. 2006 Coeur de Cuvee. Degorged 03/13. 2009 Grand Cellier Rubis. Degorged 04/13.

Vilmart Grand Cellier

The Wine Advocate Issue 192, Dec 2010 - "The NV Brut Premier Cru Grand Cellier is a great introduction to the house style. A warm, open bouquet leads to a core of generous fruit as the Grand Cellier opens up in the glass. Smoke, mint and flowers are some of the nuances that emerge over time, adding further shades of complexity. This is a superb NV bottling and is not to be missed. The Grand Cellier is 70% Chardonnay and 30% Pinot Noir, 50% 2007, 25% 2006 and 25% 2005, bottled with 10 grams of dosage. This is Lot L0609, disgorged June, 2009. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2015.

Proprietor Laurent Champs makes some of the most elegant, refined Champagnes readers are likely to come across. Every wine I tasted during my visit earlier this year was fabulous. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to taste any of the house's roses for this article, but they are among my favorite wines of the entire region. Vilmart's roses are made in small quantities and disappear virtually as soon as they hit these shores, so readers should be on the lookout for any opportunity to snap them up. All of the Champagnes are aged in oak, which plays an important part in the Vilmart signature, yet few growers are as skilled in finding the perfect balance of fruit, structure and oak. In short, I can't say enough good things about Vilmart. Readers owe it to themselves to check out these brilliant wines." - Antonio Galloni

A complex and delicate wine which has a fine mousse and rich, lush, biscuity flavours. Piquant acidity gives it balance and elegance. Not as sweet/rich as the Grande Reserve. Will age for 10-12 years. (CG)

70% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir 3 years bottle ageing prior to degorgement.

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Vilmart Grande Reserve

30% Chardonnay, 70% Pinot Noir 2 years bottle ageing prior to degorgement.

John Gauntley Laurent's entry level Champagne is the only one dominated by Pinot Noir. It is overtly fruity but fresh and quite delicious. Vilmart's class shines through. One could almost describe the Grande Reserve as gourmand - i.e perfectly matched with food

Wine Spectator - 93 points "Satiny in texture, this shows a sense of finesse that belies the power of this dense and focused Champagne. Tightly knit flavors of blackberry pte de fruit, biscuit, honey, star anise and toasted almond show beautiful integration with the intense backbone of acidity and rich underpinning of smoky minerality. Drink now through 2025. 110 cases imported - AN"

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 92 points "Displays a surprising degree of lees autolysis in the nose, joined by smoky and chalky nuances that come out more emphatically on the silken, finely effervescent palate. Suggestions of jellied red currant along with apple and lemon as well as a faint aura of barrel put me a bit in mind of Chassagne-Montrachet. This finishes with bursting brightness, ringing clarity, mouthwatering salinity, cheek-pinching piquancy, and consummate refreshment. It should fare deliciously for at least the one or two years. - Wine Advocate (Nov 2013)"

Chris Kissack 17+/20 "There is a rather fabulous nose, very refined and elegant, redolent of citrus fruits, especially oranges, alongside more developed aromas of honeyed cashew nuts and polished wood. This has a mature, complex and composed quality - not simple at all! A great palate follows, with a fine mousse, ever so slightly creamy, gently fleshy, but certainly fresh and crisply structured. It has a lovely and elegant flavour laid over a good structure, is fine and shows quite a seamless presence in the mouth. A linear, vigorous and yet flattering style, firmly poised and with a delicious herby, polished finish. This is really good; I clearly need to be looking out for more of Vilmart's wines for my cellar."

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£47.30
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