Champagne Dehours et Fils

Grande Reserve, Brut, NV

Name: Grande Reserve, Brut
Brand: Champagne Dehours et Fils
Price: 243.13 GBP

93/100

The Wine Independent

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NV
37.5cl
DP
£23.26
NV
12x37.5cl
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£279.13
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75cl
DP
£38.51
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NV
6x75cl
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£231.13
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1.5L
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£81.04
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3x1.5L
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£243.13

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Gorgeous fruit, apple and stone fruit notes, but also something floral and a touch of hay. Crisp complexity, fine spice, grapefruit pith, and toasted orange peel. Smoke and flint notes appearing on the finish. Really lovely, such a lot of character, depth but also freshness. A cuvee that sees 15-27 months sur lie and full malolactic fermentation. 65% Meunier, 15% Pinot Noir, 20% Chardonnay. Full Malolactic conversion. 41% Reserve wine. This release saw a dosage of 5g, though this can swing between 4.5g and 6 depending on the disgorgement.

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GUARANTEED PROVENANCE

Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

Further Reassurance

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

93/100

Sarah Mayo,

The Wine Independent

Based on the 2020 vintage, the Grand Réserve Brut NV is predominantly Pinot Meunier with a small amount of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the blend along with 39% of perpetual reserve wine that started in 1998. Fragrant and alluring aromas of pear tart, golden apple sauce, baking spice, pecans and sweet floral notes flow into a very focused, medium to full-bodied and textured palate centered on wonderfully ripe fruit and vivacious acid tension. It finishes with excellent length and freshness. Disgorged September 2022 and finished with a five gram per liter dosage. 40415 bottles and 2602 magnums were produced.

drinking window 2023 - 2033

date of review 11/2023

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Specifications

Country:

France

Region:

Champagne

Appellation:

Champagne

Producer:

Champagne Dehours et Fils

style:

White Wine

Grape Variety:

Chardonnay/Pinot Noir

abv:

12.5%

allergen information

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.