Champagne Benoît Marguet

Everything is in its place at all the right levels 🎧

So, here’s the thing, I’ve talked and written a lot about the polar extremes of Champagne.

At one extreme, the Battery Acid with Alcohol and Fizz in it. Artificial perfume going in, sewage coming out. They use all the tricks to deceive, trust me I know, I’ve read a few of the large house playbooks while working in Champagne.

At the other end creatures of beauty that entrance, stand on their own, heads held high. Benoît makes such creatures.

If I had to say the one style that tests a Champagne grower/maker it would have to be Rosé.

Every time I see one I raise the glass to my nose with trepidation. So often they are clumsy, out of balance, lack poise, are too sweet, and have hard angular alarming textures.

Rosé Champagne is like Pistachio Gelato in the world of iced confection. It sets the benchmark for the maker.

No fear with Benoît’s Rosé.

Let’s crunch the proverbial numbers.

1. Ambonnay fruit that was historically destined for Krug.
2. A guy that gets that the vineyard matters.
3. A strong year.
4 A maker with an incredible touch, an innate sense of balance, harmony, and layering.

It’s a Rosé of precision, tension, purity, with a superb texture.

He’s at the soundboards for the recording of an epic band and has got every single level dialed in to perfection.

So he can do Rosé at this level, gotta look at the rest of his gear. He has the full monty of Grand Cru Champagnes with a suite of Village wines from Ambonnay, Aÿ, Bouzy, Chouilly, Avize/Cramant, 3 lieux dits from Ambonnay + a Super Cuvée “Sapience”.

Blah, blah Champagne Super Cuvée, sure, they’re like A*# H@!^s everyone’s got one. READ ON my friends!

This one is the equivalent of the Beatles Getting Back Together! Fruit from Lahaye, Laval, Leclapart & of course Marguet!