NV Leclerc Briant Brut Reserve
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The NV Champagne Reserve Extra Brut is entirely 2021, displaying a medium yellow to light golden color. The blend is one-third each Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Meunier, with a 4.5 grams per liter dosage, and it was disgorged in March 2025. It’s ripe and toasty, with notes of salted pineapple, grilled toast, lemon, and fresh almonds. Medium to full-bodied, it carries good intensity on the palate, with richness and a bit of phenolic bitterness, and the oak shows a more pronounced impact here. Drink 2025-2035.
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Jancis Robinson MW
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40% Chardonnay, 20% Pinot Noir, 20% Meunier. All premier- and grand-cru sites. Organic and biodynamic. Classic champagne characters. Has acidity but there’s loads of depth and complexity on the palate. Nutty, yeasty, zesty agrume notes. Lots going on here and plenty to enjoy. (AWH)
Based on the 2020 vintage and pouring a bright straw hue, the NV Champagne Brut Reserve is fresh and lifted with breezy and savory aromas of seashell and fresh pear. Floral and fruity on the palate, with medium body and a juicy feel, it has a clean, chalky texture and a mouthwatering, light almond finish with a hint of umami. Made from all organic grapes, it has a dosage of 4.5 grams per liter and was disgorged March 2024.
A blend of 40% Pinot Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier and 20% Chardonnay, the NV Réserve Brut from Champagne Leclerc Briant is showing well today, evoking a lively, fresh bouquet of pear, verbena, lime tree, herbs and menthol. Moderately weighted and tense, it's vinous and energetic with an incisive mid-palate and a mouthwatering, fresh finish. Based on the 2020 vintage with only 5% vins de réserve, it was disgorged in October 2023 with 4.5 grams per liter dosage.