2005 Franck Bonville Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut Millésimé

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  3/6/2021 - julen789 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Second bottle. We enjoy drinking Bonville’s wines in ‘La Fisna’, one of our favorite wine bars in Madrid, since the owner is the sole distributor in Spain. We’ve tried 2005, 2004, and 2006 of this specific collection of older vintages, and they are consistently pleasurable wines. In this case, we found that this 2005 needed quite a lot of air to open up and to lose an artificial/resin-like note that it had from opening. Despite this, it was very characteristic of the producer’s wines with a whole bouquet of ripe exotic fruits: mango, pineapple, nectarines, and apricots, with a floral touch of elderflower; the resin that was potent on the nose from the beginning eventually became a more pine nut-like scent, with wax, cacao butter, some Sherry wine, some young cheese, and mushrooms; when it fully opened up, it showed some fresh butter and vanilla pastry cream, butter cookies, toasted walnuts, along with deeper notes of honey and caramel, and some spices such as (candied) ginger, and cinnamon.
  Bonville’s wines age extremely gracefully and at a steady pace, particularly his millésimes and single-plot wines, and understandably for the zone they really need multiple years of bottle age to be fully enjoyable. That said, in their youth they also offer pleasurable, ‘bright’ experiences. The Millésime Retrouvé collection is really worth it; the creaminess of the texture is impressive considering that this wine never touches wood. A delight to drink; worth finding!
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  9/29/2017 - Björkkulla Lund Likes this wine: 77 Points

  2005 millésimes retrouvés. Bought from producer in May 2017. Very good as apéretif and it will probably not become better. Round taste of fruit and some chocolate. Low acidity and limited amount of bubbles.

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  10/24/2010 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 92 Points

  2010 K&L Annual Champagne Event (K&L San Francisco Store): K&L Champagne Tasting. First time with a vintage champagne from this producer, nose of yeast, minerals, and citrus, more of the same on the palate, a vintage value in my opinion but I chose to buy Rose Champagnes today, very elegant, mouth filling, some complexity, one of my top champagnes tasted today.

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  10/23/2010 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 89 Points

  2010 K&L Champagne Event (K&L, Hollywood, California): Light yellow color; apple, apple core nose; tart apple, chalk, mineral palate; medium finish

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  10/8/2010 - GGinSF wrote: 90 Points

  Focused, lightly yeasty. Nice BdB that avoids the overly lemon tartness of some Chardonnay Champagnes. Good acidity. This is very nice now, but should really blossom in a couple years. Not as age-worthy as the 2002.

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