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Pierre Paillard, Champange Grand Cru Extra Brut La Grande Recolte Bouzy, 2012 [

Name: Pierre Paillard, Champange Grand Cru Extra Brut La Grande Recolte Bouzy, 2012 [
Brand: Pierre Paillard
SKU: NYC-1-MSK-`FR-KPA-40-12`-042225-10
Price: 209.99 USD
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Sparkling Wine from Champagne, France

by Pierre Paillard

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Pierre Paillard is one of those grower Champagne producers that insiders always mention, and this bottle—La Grande Récolte 2012—is their crown jewel. Made from all Grand Cru Bouzy fruit, it’s a Pinot Noir–driven blend aged a full decade on the lees before release. The result? Deep, toasty complexity with bone-dry finesse.

You get roasted hazelnuts, ripe orchard fruit, and a whisper of red berries from the Pinot, all wrapped in fine bubbles and a salty chalk finish. It's Extra Brut, so it’s refreshingly dry—but thanks to the long aging, it still feels rich and creamy.

This is Champagne for lovers of nuance and texture. Pair it with everything from roast chicken to lobster to nothing at all—because sometimes, you just need a really good glass of bubbles that knows what it’s doing.

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Bouzy is probably the best village name in all of winedom. And when we talk about it we get to say thing like, "Pierre Paillard is a true Bouzy specialist." What could be better than that? Well, fortunately, the wines!

We've featured lots of great Blanc de Blancs Champagnes from the Côte des Blancs, but fewer of Champagnes great Pinot Noir terroirs, like the stunning villages of Ambonnay and Bouzy, which are a mere 700 yards apart on the same slope. Ambonnay is probably the more famous, thanks to Krug's Clos d'Ambonnay. But the Pinot Noir grown in Bouzy is so magical and pure that it's one of the few parts of Champagne that is almost as famous for its still red wine as for its bubbles.

As we said, Pierre Paillard is one of the few true Bouzy specialists. He has about 11 hectares there, mostly Pinot Noir. He farms organically and takes a very classic approach in the winery with the principal aim of promoting freshness: low temperature fermentations, steel tanks, and very low dosage.

The wines therefore have good snap, but with more Pinot than Chardonnay they aren't the taut, chalky things you find further south. Instead, you get sensuousness—even lustiness!—and that mysterious earthy flavor that even hard-core Burgundy fans just can't quite put a finger on.

Paillard is patient and he takes his time aging and releasing his wine. Even the basic "Brut" is made from grapes picked 5+ years ago.

Details

Grape Variety

Chardonnay , Pinot Noir
Vintage

Champagne , 2012
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Organic
Sweetness

Dry
Body

Light Bodied

Champagne

Champagne boasts some of the world’s greatest luxury brands with Krug, Cristal and, of course, Dom Perignon. But it’s also home to hundreds of small dynamic producers—farmers who grow their own grapes (often organically) and make (often with natural methods) tiny amounts of pure and absolutely delicious wine that reflect the individual personalities of their villages and terroirs. Toast with these wines, for sure. But also treat them like the great wines they are: taste, drink, explore!

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