DEUTZ AMOUR DE DEUTZ BLANC DE BLANCS VINTAGE 2013

Style: Rocks & Minerals

Admittedly it has been a few years since I last tasted the Deutz Champagnes, so I was not fully prepared for the consistently outstanding quality of virtually all these new releases. Although Deutz has been owned by Roederer since 1992, this is the only property in the group that is run in an autonomous fashion, as the Rouzaud family did not want to risk losing the estates unique identity by consolidation winemaking functions. The Deutz Champagnes undergo full malolactic fermentation and at their best offer a polished, creamy style that drinks well early but that can also age. These new releases from Deutz are all recommended, but I found the wines required quite a bit of air to show at their finest. ANTONIO GALLONI, Wine Advocate

There's a compelling contrast here between the elegance of the house in this cool, late harvest, and a real presence of confidence and intensity that encapsulate the strength of Avize and Le Mesnil. The dancing purity of the season furnishes a fantastic core of lemon, white peach, grapefruit and nashi pear, but faintly brushed with the brioche and honey of age, a quiet declaration of the slow motion evolution of great things to come. The grand acidity of 2013 unites with a deep ocean of salt infused minerality in a mesmerising upwelling of pure, crystalline chalk that glitters and froths though a finish of epic line and length. The cool, restrained mood of 2013 charges Amour with a surge of energy that thrusts it long into the future of potential, confirming a brilliant Blanc de Blancs and the greatest since the spellbinding 2008. IMPORTER

Region: Champagne, FRANCE

Variety: Chardonnay

ABV: 12.5%

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