Guide VERON des Champagnes 2019
(around
32 euros per bottle)
Radiant, sober and refined bottle.
Aspect:
Pale gold.
Refined bubbles.
Elegant and persistent bead of bubbles.
Nose:
Radiant farandole of delicate fragrances.
The Chardonnay, exclusive varietal, slowly
establishes itself, with its aromas of white fruits and citrus fruits gently
interlaced with touches of white flowers, almond, hazelnut and exotic fruits,
enhanced by a life-giving, iodized and mentholated breath.
The maturity is then revealed, initially shy,
and then more confident, with its captivating scents of brioche, honey and
marzipan, barely toasted, result of four years of ageing on laths of the
bottles in the cellars of the house, before riddling and disgorgement.
Palate:
Pure and heady tension at the opening,
delicious characteristic sign of the chalk of the Grand Cru of Avize.
The mouth becomes a sensual caress,
definitely reinforced by the judicious fulfilment of the malolactic
fermentation of the base wines.
Gourmet and creamy finish, supported by the
accurate dosage with 8 g/L of sugar added at disgorgement, driven by the
dynamic effervescence.
Great length on the palate.
For this Millésime 2012 Grand Cru Blanc de
Blancs, Olivier Bonville, œnologist and cellar master of the Champagne house
Franck Bonville, was able to accompany with sensitivity its grapes harvested by
hand at perfect ripeness in 2012, to sign a well-defined champagne.
To taste from aperitif to meal, with a quail
supreme, foie gras and girolle mushrooms,
for example.
In the heart of the Côte des Blancs, Olivier
Bonville, fourth generation of wine growers, true to the visionary leadership
of Alfred Bonville, creator of the house, tries its hardest to reveal since
1996 with the humility of the great wine growers, all the elegance and the
subtlety of the Grand Cru of Avize. The 77 plots of the wine estate of 15
hectares being certified HVE (Haute Valeur Environnementale), separately
vinified, enable to produce each year around 150,000 bottles of exciting champagnes.
Champagne Franck
Bonville
9 rue Pasteur
51 190 Avize
Tel.: +33 (0)3 26 57 52 30
