{"title":"Fine and Rare Champagne","description":"\u003cp\u003eFine and rare Champagne represents the pinnacle of one of the world’s most celebrated wine regions, where exceptional vineyards, meticulous blending, and long cellar aging create wines of remarkable depth and precision. The most sought-after bottles often come from prestigious Grand Cru and Premier Cru villages, historic houses, and small grower-producers, with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier expressing the chalky soils and cool climate of Champagne in distinctly different ways. From powerful, structured Blanc de Noirs to mineral-driven Blanc de Blancs and complex vintage cuvées, these wines are prized for their finesse, complexity, longevity, and ability to evolve beautifully over decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"egly-ouriet-brut-grand-cru-millesime","title":"Egly-Ouriet Brut Grand Cru Millesime 2014 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the very finest wines produced in this less heralded vintage is Egly's 2014 Brut Grand Cru Millésime, a strikingly vinous and enveloping Champagne that wafts from the glass with aromas of pear, mirabelle plum, freshly baked bread, almond paste and honeycomb. Full-bodied, satiny and layered, its textural attack segues into a deep, concentrated mid-palate of exceptional purity and cut, concluding with a long, penetrating and mouthwateringly saline finish. As ever, it's a blend of some 70% Pinot Noir with 30% Chardonnay from Ambonnay's greatest terroirs. 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Planted between 1968-1973, it’s a historic site for grafting \u0026amp; horticultural research from the 1800s. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLassaigne tells the story behind the label. “In the 1980s, [someone] found written accounts of a story buried in the ground in a garden near Mount Fuji: in 1850-1860 when Japan opened their port and sent people to other countries to learn, they sent two Japanese people to the Clos Sainte-Sophie parcel to learn about the vineyard and how to make wine. They stayed for two years and returned to Japan with 100 rootstocks — and planted the first vineyard in Japan.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVinification Method: The Clos Sainte-Sophie juice is vinified in a combination of barrels previously used for Cognac, Savagnin ouillé (from Ganevat), and Burgundy barrels for 6 months. The juice is then blended in tank for 2 months. The wine is bottled in the spring of the following vintage and then spends 6 years on the lees in bottle. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTasting notes: This wine is opulence personified. Laser beams of acidity balance out the caramel notes here and the finish goes on and on for millennia. This wine pairs well with long-lived wedding anniversaries and doctoral dissertation completions, but it will also make a random moment feel just as special. Extremely limited and unicorn-like. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. 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This sunny vintage gave us a generous and well-ripened harvest of grapes which allowed us to craft a Cristal that is truer than ever to its identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 2014 vintage has given us a more terroir style of wine than ever before, one in which the purity and excellent drainage properties of the chalk enabled us to mitigate the vagaries of the weather over the year. 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Medium-bodied, it offers a lively mousse, with an expansive feel that takes on some warmth, and a lovely salty, mineral touch that adds a fantastic spice to the relatively broad structure of this cuvée in this warmer vintage. As it opens in the glass, it takes on a good deal of focus and shines with notes of lemon confit all the way through. The wine’s powerful backbone and structure suggest this can age slowly over the coming 10-15 years. 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