NV Ruppert-Leroy Champagne La Bergerie Brut Nature

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  5/20/2021 - mye wrote:

  My note is this is delicious. I need to find some. I'd like to put this up side by side with the Bouchard VV as they're both similar in price.. Although at this point, both are kinda hard to find. Great peachy fruit, balanced fruity acid, hint of minerals, all the goodness of a tasty bubbles.

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  3/10/2021 - Frank Murray III wrote:

  Blind Tasting via Zoom--3/9: Damn it is hard to find info on this wine. The R-L website doesn't say anything about the cuvee, and aside from a short blurb from a retailer's website, the best we can do is (thank god for) the back label. This is a mix of fruit from the 3 R-L plots: 60% Fosse, 20% Martin Fontaine and 20% Les Cognaux, split 50% Pinot noir and 50% Chard. 2017 base, disgorged October 2019. Zero dosage. I assume that this wine fails the millesime test because it saw less than 3 years on the lees? I do enjoy this producer, and a bottle of Martin Fontaine (2015 base) last year was stunning. This is the first of three La Bergerie that I acquired. Opened last night for our Zoom group, poured blind. This is mostly still today, as the CO2 has left the wine. What's left here is a wine that has plenty of depth and intensity, both that persist well through into the finish. Lemon, some bruised apple, saline, with plenty of texture, even a bot of roundness that gives the wine a cool mouthfeel. Still plenty of grip in the finish, the saline and minerality helping it along. Apple, and even some red berry like a strawberry is finding its way into the finish, too. Really lovely.

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