Champagne 2025: Tasting at Boizel

NM with plots throughout the region. Reductive-style, PN mainly with Chardonnay, Meunier; steel fermentation mainly; small and large oak used for vintages; malolactic; Joyau Blanc is 10pc wood vinified with oak elevage for 11m with 7-10y lees; oak elevage only used for 10pc of wines; ex-Burgundy white barrels used;

Regular, untechnical tour with a large group. Joyau is drinkable but unexceptional. Not a lot of terroir expressiveness given the vineyard blending, wines were perhaps over-balanced and felt "toned-down", perhaps bland.

• 2012 Boizel Champagne Joyau de France 89 Points

  France, Champagne

  2012 Joyau: Nov 2024, 60pc PN 40pc Chard; 11y aged on lees; 4g/l; grand cru/1er cru of Mailly, Vertus, Verzenay of PN, chard is Avize chouilly; preserved pear with some cinnamon on the throat, acids are too malic and heavy; fruit lacks ripeness and depth; cinnamon biscuit on the nose; definitely a tertiary dominant wine; 10pc sous bois;

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• 2012 Boizel Champagne Joyau de France Rosé 89 Points

  France, Champagne

  2012 Joyau rose: assemblage, 63pc pinot, 37pc Chardonnay; 3.5g/l, 11y lees; 9pc of pinot is vinified red comes from Riceys; faint mineral-ness, orangey-mandarin, peaches in the nose, biscuitty after some air, but initially too much fruit on nose; honey, stony on the back, acids are grippy and linger on tongue, lacking crispness;

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