ドゥ・ヴノージュのシャンパーニュの中でもプレステージキュヴェにあたり、グラン・クリュ（ピノ・ノワール50％、シャルドネ50％）のみで造られています。このキュヴェは、ヴィンテージの特徴を際立たせるために、非常に良い年にのみ生産されます。
香りは、まず、花のような香りとフルーティーな柑橘系のアロマが広がり、次に蜂蜜やキャラメル、トースト香が広がります。味わいは、フレッシュで力強く、フルーティーなアロマに、軽いペッパーの香りが加わり、美しい塩味のフィニッシュへと続きます。力強さと複雑さを併せ持つ、ドゥ・ヴノージュ・スタイルの真髄ともいえる極上のシャンパーニュです。
- 生産者
- ドゥ ヴノージュ
de Venoge - ワイン名
- ルイ15世（キャンズ）
Louis XV - ヴィンテージ
- 1995
- 容量
- 750ml
- 解説
- パーカーポイント: 97点
予想される飲み頃：2017 - 2025
Possessing a beautiful golden color with orange and even Amber reflections, the 1995 Louis XV Brut is a 50/50 blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from several grands crus - Verzenay, Ambonnay, Mailly and Bouzy for the Pinot and Avize, Cramant, Mesnil-sur-Oger and Chouilly for the Chardonnay. What a gorgeous bouquet is this! Vinous and slightly oxidative, with hints of figs and dates, toffee, Madeira, Vin Jaune, Sherry, biscuits, toasted rice, white mushrooms, earthy flavors, licorice, oriental spices, vanilla, dried oranges and apricots and a thousand more flavors. If you like matured Champagnes, you'd die for this. On the palate, however, this is a fascinatingly pure, fresh, tight and delicate Champagne that is lithe and perfectly balanced but also concentrated. The finish is again pure, fresh and mineral, with stewed apricot and peach flavors in the salty aftertaste. This is a great delicacy delivered onto the palate with sophisticated intensity and stunning tension. The wine was fermented in stainless steel, malolactic included, and disgorged in 2006 (!) with a dosage of seven grams per liter. "With aging, the Chardonnay grand cru is always taking over the Pinot Noir," finds de Venoge's chairman Gilles de La Bassetière, whose 1995 was still made by Eric Lebel, the winemaker chez Krug since 1998. If you have opened the 1995, please share it, or at least, drink it the same day! The wine loses a bit of its charming creaminess the second and third day, whereas the acidity remains fresh and gives the wine a more austere character then.
(Interim End of November 2017, The Wine Advocate, 1st Dec 2017)
