Guide VERON des Champagnes 2020
(around 28 euros per bottle)
Sober and refined bottle.
Aspect:
Dense
colour, livened up by bright coppery glints.
Fine
bubbles.
Regular
bead of foam.
Nose:
Intense
and touching.
Generous
fragrances of red and black fruits (strawberry, raspberry, blackcurrant,
blackberry and blueberry), punctuated by liquorice, heady characteristic signs
of the Pinot Noir (10%) chosen in Ambonnay, Grand Cru of the Mountain of Reims,
and vinified as red wine.
Later,
the Chardonnay (90%), selected in the Grand Cru of Avize, becomes more
confident with delicate scents of white fruits, citrus fruits and mint,
highlighted by iodized touches.
Palate:
Lively
opening, underlined by the seductive minerality of the chalk.
The
mouth then unveils an enveloping roundness, reinforced by the emerging maturity
thanks to 30 months of ageing on laths of the bottles, and by the accurate
dosage with 7 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement.
Tasty
finish, at once warm and deliciously acidulous, driven by a sensual
effervescence.
Great
length on the palate.
For
this Rosé Grand Cru, Olivier Bonville, œnologist and cellar master of the
Champagne house Franck Bonville, was able to compose the inspired blending of
the red and white wines, Grands Crus and vintages (2014 and 2015), to offer us
a rare blended champagne rosé.
Ideal
to accompany your intimate moments, as an aperitif or during a meal with a
strawberry cream cake and tarragon, for example.
Son
and heir to 3 generations of wine growers, Olivier Bonville carefully looks
after the 77 plots of his 15 hectares vineyard, since 1996,
established in the Grands Crus of Avize and Oger, on the chalk of the Côte des
Blancs. Certified High Environmental Value, the wine estate is cultivated
without using herbicide and insecticide, on soils covered with grass and ploughed,
and then hedges are recreated to preserve the biodiversity. Each terroir is vinified separately with
accuracy, to craft with passion around 150,000 bottles per year of a range
inspired by touching Grands Crus champagnes.
Champagne Franck Bonville
9 rue Pasteur
51 190 Avize
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 52 30
